Ballmer Calling Me A Music Thief?

re: Ballmer Calling Me A Music Thief?

chrisl — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:22:00 GMT

DRM, drm. If you could eventually switch all the media to DRM media, would piracy increase because of the pressure to find non-DRM goods, or decrease because of the strength of the DRM itself? Hmmm!

re: Ballmer Calling Me A Music Thief?

chrisl — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:34:00 GMT

Considered the mass of the music services use WMRM it's still a very large amount. You have Napster, Wal-mart, MSN Music, MusicNow, MusicMatch, BuyMusic, Liquid Audio. Those are just in the US. You also have Fnac, musiqueenligne.com, Tiscali Music Club, Virgin Downloads, and Wanadoo in France. You have Karstadt, Media Markt, MTV, Tiscali Music Club, and WomDownload in Germany. And the list goes on and on. iTMS might have the largest singe sales, but there lack of licensing (Along with a few other things) will have it not being the mass for long. Then add to that Movie Services. You have CinemaNow and others. They might not be that popular now, but there is still a TON of media out there.

DeCSS was written so people could enable playback on *nix system, IIRC. As most people using *nix would never think of purchasing music using Microsoft technologies it will be fun to see what happens.

It's a bit ironic

TrackBack — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:25:00 GMT

re: Ballmer Calling Me A Music Thief?

chrisl — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:43:00 GMT

No one cracked the CSS in DVDs until they reached critical mass. No one will crack the DRM in WMP because no one wants to: they just don't use it so why bother? (it's not because it's so wonderful, that's why the media didn't care when it was cracked once, it's just not news).

Fairplay was cracked (and people will keep trying to do so) because it is the most common DRM system. How many songs have been sold using WMP DRM?