Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
by RexRollman on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @06:40AM
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True, but the Apple music beast was really created by the music industry who insisted on them using DRM in the first place.
Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
by mseebach on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @08:47AM
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Yes, Apple did a bait-and-switch on the music industry. First they won by playing by the rules, then they used their dominance to change the rules.
Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
by pajop on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @05:09AM
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I agree with this. When I was buying physical music CDs and play it on my laptop - different CDs had different DRM formats. After a while, I had 6-7 different DRM-enabled players. I stopped playing physical CDs on my laptop after that.
The iPod won the music player market, so if you tried to sell music with DRM you need to either (i) play by Apple's rules or (ii) have mundane tech users being confused when they can't play the music they bought on the what at become THE standard music player.
In 2006, during discusion of the Broadcast Flag DRM, an 82 year old senator was given an iPod and started to realise that lots of DRM wouldn't work with it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/01/history-and-senator-st...