MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP For All

Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by Tichy on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @06:32PM (#368906)

I didn't say that it is not fair, but I think it definitely is DRM. So maybe it is an example of fair use of DRM.

I still prefer my MP3s name-free, but that only means that I would pay more for name-free than for named MP3s.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by mattmaroon on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @09:04PM (#369027)

DRM stands for digital rights management. Encoding your name doesn't manage your rights in any way.

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by Tichy on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @01:44AM (#369256)

Maybe it doesn't enforce them, but suppose the police scans my computer and finds lots of MP3s signed to Matt Maroon, would it really not matter? (Honestly I don't know - but if it doesn't matter, why encode the name to begin with?).

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Re:MacBooks Enter a Golden Age of Anti-piracy Cruft: HDCP Fo... by mattmaroon on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @03:15AM (#369308)

Honestly my argument was more semantics. It's not DRM. It's something else, and certainly less odious. All they're doing is creating a way to track illegal activity.

I wonder what the laws are on selling the track and then deleting it though. Is that as legal as selling a cd, or do you get sign some sort of legal agreement when you purchase the track? I've never purchased a single track online so I don't know much about that.

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