Here's the most recent DRM I found...Fwd: Tainting the CD format
Laurens van Graft The Grip Guy (thegripguy@rogers.com) All your gymnastics grip needs right here! PODCASTING IS CHANGING THE WORLD!
Subject: [fwrends] Tainting the CD format
p2p news view / p2pnet: Sony knew they were dead in the water when the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admonished them on the CD rootkit
scandal -
at a Chamber of Commerce event on combating intellectual-property theft.
According to Briand Krebs of the Washington Post the Department of Homeland
Security's
assistant secretary for policy, Stewart Baker, made at the event "a remark
clearly aimed directly at Sony and other labels":
"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property --
it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual
property,
it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people
need to adopt in these days.
The Recording Industry Association of America's CEO Mitch Bainwol was in
attendance and you knew that these words had to run a shiver down his spine.
He
is spending quite a bit of time on the beltway these days pushing several
new bills to give Hollywood control of how consumers use future electronic
products.
But, it is hard to call certain activities illegal when one of your members
spreads what security pundits called malicious code to millions of home
computers.
It just undermines his argument, especially when a senior Bush official
looks him straight in the eye and says he agrees with the pundits.
Bainwol has another big worry. The controversy from the Sony scandal has the
potential to go beyond Sony by tainting the CD format itself in the eyes of
consumers. This could kill the format, though it is not clear yet what
effect, if any, this will have on record sales. The word-of-mouth building
on the
Net looks ominous right now. The industry is now looking to lay low and hope
this passes.
That's why Sony backed down yesterday and declared that they would remove
this particular DRM from all of their products...temporarily. Sony and the
industry
as a whole are in damage control mode. So far they have not done a very good
job as recent comments by senior Sony exec Thomas Hesse only inflamed
animosity
on the blogosphere. Sony is also unapologetic about their tactic, which in
itself is playing very badly in the press.
One thing is for sure, the industry will not give up on installing DRM tools
on their wares. In the end, as more artists continue to use file sharing as
a promotional tool, DRM may just become a costly solution looking for a
problem.
Rich Menta -
MP3NewsWire
Klonk Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:31:58 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Laurens van Graft <lvangraft@mac.com> [re: [Yello] Here's the most recent DRM I found...Fwd: Tainting the CD format]:
Laurens van Graft The Grip Guy (thegripguy@rogers.com) All your gymnastics grip needs right here! PODCASTING IS CHANGING THE WORLD!
Subject: [fwrends] Tainting the CD format p2p news view / p2pnet:
Brother, did you not get the message from the holy iKamm? We're to not speak of anything that doth not strictly and directly pertain to Yello. As a prior to the iKamm, you more than any should know better. Alas, I fear now you have performed an act equivalent to standing on a hill in a lightning storm wearing matching copper shorts and shirt. I can only now pray that iKamm's judgement upon thee is swift. Lest I should also be smitten with an iCurse, let me hastily mention that Yello is teh r0xx0r! OFPS! WiT? p33ps don't hear @bout tems sometimes? Sometimes! --gcr
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Klonk Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:31:58 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Laurens van Graft <lvangraft@mac.com> [re: [Yello] Here's the most recent DRM I found...Fwd: Tainting the CD format]:
Laurens van Graft The Grip Guy (thegripguy@rogers.com) All your gymnastics grip needs right here! PODCASTING IS CHANGING THE WORLD!
Subject: [fwrends] Tainting the CD format p2p news view / p2pnet:
Brother, did you not get the message from the holy iKamm? We're to not speak of anything that doth not strictly and directly pertain to Yello. As a prior to the iKamm, you more than any should know better. Alas, I fear now you have performed an act equivalent to standing on a hill in a lightning storm wearing matching copper shorts and shirt. I can only now pray that iKamm's judgement upon thee is swift.
Lest I should also be smitten with an iCurse, let me hastily mention that Yello is teh r0xx0r! OFPS! WiT? p33ps don't hear @bout tems sometimes? Sometimes!
--gcr
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Klonk Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:40:35 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Laurens van Graft <lvangraft@mac.com> [re: Re: [Yello] Here's the most recent DRM I found...Fwd: Tainting the CD format]:
I like COPPER!! Mustn't panic, lad. My oral probiscus was lodged firmly against my oral cavity wall as I bespoke the foregoing. In your revulsion against DRM, even that which is invasive, I am with thee.
The rules?: great. What is good for one is good for *all*. As you seem to imply, I shall boldly speak that if we are to have a RULEFEST now, then ALL must be held to the same standard. And now go home. See you tomorrow. Same time. Same place. Take care! --gcr
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