____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 25 September 2007 22:19 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Online music distributors: song licensing a painful and expensive process
>>
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>>| At a breakout session for the Future of Music Policy Summit in DC this
>>| week, online music distributors complained that licensing music for digital
>>| retail is still far too complicated, and blamed this complication for the
>>| paucity of online distribution outside of the US market.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070920-song-licensing-still-a-painful-and-expensive-process-say-online-music-distributors.html
>> http://tinyurl.com/2g5vy7
>
> Well, the content owners could change this if they wanted to.
>
>>
>> Study Says DRM Violates Canadian Privacy Law
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The study indicated that DRM is being used to collect, use and disclose
>>| consumers' personal information for secondary purposes.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137404-c,mp3players/article.html
>>
>
> Ahh, the rights of the individual are starting to emerge in almost all
> countries.
I don't think that enough people protest against this because, as the INQ said
a while ago, media moguls find sneakier ways of secretly embedding DRM (they
wanted to change target with names too, e.g. 'enablement'). I've been
associated with the FSF's DRM elimination crew for a while, but I get no real
response to issues that I raise with those who do not understand technology.
As Sun's CEO said, people's will only realise it when it's too later and put
in simple terms --- your entire photo collection (family album) is gone; along
with other collections that have sentimental value...
Bruce S and Peter G have also written to explain why DRM will mean a security
nightmare. It's not about encrypting for the user's security... it's only
security for the monopolists' cash flow, at the _expense_ of real security.
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