‘DRM at risk’ warning!
p2p news / p2pnet: There’s big money in stopping people from freely doing what they want to do with ‘product’ they’ve bought and paid for.
But, "Hundreds of billions of dollars" and, "the future of dozens of promising digital entertainment markets" are in danger unless, "concerned companies and industries" are able to "resolve their differences over DRM and Conditional Access (CA)," says iSupply.
Thanks largely to Big Four Organized Music member Sony BMG and its infamous rootkit DRM spyware, Digital Restrictions Management has now been thoroughly publicized. But CA? Must be a DRM look-alike through which people pay good money for something they’re only allowed to use under certain heavily qualified, pre-set (by the seller), conditions.
Apparently, though, "disagreements between the concerned companies and industries over how DRM and CA should be implemented are hampering the growth of these markets," saysiSuppli.
And that’s because, "When it comes to DRM and CA, conflicting interests abound, both among industries and among companies," explains iSuppli’s Mark Kirstein. "The diversity of interests in DRM has resulted in a competitive deadlock regarding interoperability."
Translated, that means there are now so many companies trying to get in on the DRM scam that they’ve created a log-jam.
DRM can never work by virtue of the simple fact that anything which can be seen and/or heard can be copied. Period.
Nevertheless, "Overall, the market for DRM/CA in networked and mobile applications amounted to nearly $1.5 billion in 2005, and will grow to more than $4.7 billion by 2010," says iSuppli.
Also See:
iSupply – Future of Digital Entertainment at Risk Due to DRM Challenges, iSuppli Warns, June 13, 2006
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June 14th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Oh, all you iPoders, movie goers and players of CDs. Don’t you know if the product can’t be locked down, “they” won’t make any more?
I bet Sony just packs it in and lets its artists go free to do whatever they will.
You’ll be so sorry when there’s no TV.
Yahoo!
June 14th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
$1.5 billion annually? Pfft. Bill Gates has $50 billion (and an army of programmers)
)
Micro$oft IS DRM (read the Windows/Office XP EULAs and you’ll get my point
However, there’s always Linux and IsoBuster via Cedega to get the un-DRMed files (and DeCSS for DVDs:D)
June 15th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
As far as something worth watching, there is already no tv. I’ve canceled my pay to view accounts and no longer have anything hooked up to my tv as an outside signal soure. It’s been this way for around 3 years now and I find I am none the worse for it. In fact, I’m money ahead.
The idea that there are umpteen channels on satellite but rerun city is the theme they subscribe to make it a dead enviroment for entertainment. It’s hardly worth the money to see everything the first 1/2 of the month and wade through reruns till the next month comes out.
DRM has altered the product to where ownership is not part of the deal anymore. There’s no reason to buy something when the price is sought to be ever higher for a product with heavy limitations. Part of buying is being able to adapt it to your lifestyle, be that cd for a vehicle, tape, or just conversion to mp3 for your personal player. Since it can’t be used that way, it can’t be resold to recoup some of your expense for a poor choice, and it can’t be refunded as defective, it is better not to buy to begin with. Myself, I choose to get more bang for the buck for my entertainment dollars than this severally limited media.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:49 am