RealNetwork’s new DRM
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RealNetworks has developed Rhapsody DNA, yet another DRM application, for its Rhapsody To Go subscription music service.
It’ll allow people who’ve over-paid good money for their music to keep it —- just as long as they keep on paying.
Yay!
This is Part Deux of the announcement made by Real and SanDisk that they’re about to foist another locked-up music player onto the hapless public.
Based on SanDisk’s e200, it’ll, “create a very different MP3 player experience inside of a SanDisk player,” rhapsodizes Real on its site, going on that E200 firmware has some “very useful new capabilities,” ie, it’ll be, “the first MP3 player to automatically find and download new music based on your musical preferences and listening behavior”.
Wonder how they’ll figure out what your “musical preferences and listening behaviors” are? Could that mean spyware implanted on your system, with all that implies if that’s the case?
Meanwhile, says Real, “Helix DRM has been a great base for Rhapsody DNA because a) it supports any codec, format and OS – enabling Rhapsody to be put onto any devices; b) it uses a licensing model that allows certain functionality not possible with WM-DRM, and c) it is Real technology so we can access and modify it at any level we need.”
A rose by any other name is still DRM, and that stands for Digital Restrictions Management.
But it’d be better named CCC for Corporate Consumer Control or, just plain C.R.A.P. for Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment, as Richard Stallman has dubbed it.
Also See:
about to foist – RealNetworks, SanDisk deal, September 18, 2006
dubbed it – Apple and its C.R.A.P., March 4, 2006
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