Comments on: New Sony DRM: ’something better than free’

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:28:31 +0000

Have y’all heard the one about the kid with his hand stuck in the cookie jar because he has way to many cookies in his hand? Just let go and, POOF! Like magic the hand is no longer stuck. And gee-wiz, you can still get cookies out of the jar if you are just not so damn GREEDY.

Mitch, your Decadently Excessive Cookie Extractor technology will not work. Just let go of some cookies.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:29:00 +0000

If you can see it or hear it you can copy it by one means or another. Period. Full stop. End of story.

Cheers!

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:01:46 +0000

Yep. Airtight DRM is physically, mathematically impossible. But the content industry’s lust for *complete control* is so overwhelming they go out begging for people to sell them snake oil. More thoughts here: http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/09/13/step-right-up/

By: Concerned citizen

Concerned citizen — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:31:23 +0000

didnt they get successfully sued for thre last DRM piece a work.

STUPID is AS STUPID does.
OH and call it a TPM that works ...TPM + DRM = DUM

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:55:52 +0000

We already have a format that allows all the things he mentions; It’s called “AVI”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:04:34 +0000

The biggest problem major labels see today as their hold back is Apple and iTunes who won’t let them raise the prices of the goods. The labels think raising the prices is their salvation path. Unfortunately, raising prices isn’t going to net them more money. It will net them less as fewer can afford what is already to highly priced.

Since iTunes seems to be the only thing going right on line, they can’t afford to knock Apple too loudly. Their next scheme is to get other going sales points in competition with Apple. The problem with this is that already the labels are too demanding in what the prices will be. Since the going price is already 99Â¢, raising it is gonna be a tough sell. The high cost of licensing is already the reason why no other sites are doing well. When poisoned with DRM of any sort, it makes the product not worth the price now asked. Don’t even go to talking about how higher prices would effect sales.

It has been proven time and again, lower prices encourage more spending, not higher prices. Again we see the majors as being their own worse enemy. It will do me good to have a good chuckle when this one falls as flat on it’s face as has the previous attempts to create iTunes competition have done in the past. As long as prices are sky high with DRM laced goods, of poor quality, you can expect the same old same old. The customer doesn’t want it and they can’t sell enough goods to keep the doors open.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:13:37 +0000

What fuckng joke.