mdj wrote:
Now maybe I'm getting old and cynical, but I think this is less about content producers protecting their rights, and more about technology companies making a few bucks on the sale of every display - now that they've effectively turned an open technology into a closed one.
Right--the content "owners" get to re-sell the same content multiple times and the DRM owners get their "30 pieces of silver" on each license.
Technology revolutions like VHS and the PC compatible proved the value of open systems that can be implemented by anyone. I find the fact that this is being slowly eroded in favour of technologies based off open systems that are then locked down by an unethical perversion of copyright law to be a far more pressing issue than the fact that my 0.99c iTunes track can't be transferred without quality loss onto acompetitors portable audio device.
Totally agree. And devices that receive or play HD programming generally limit the resolution of any unencrypted output! -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."