Jobs hates DRM and Vista fails tests
Jobs doesn’t like DRM and wants to put the pressure on legislators to put the record labels in their crosshairs. Vista OneCare doesn’t quite have the same security that XP’s OneCare had, in fact it failed the VB100 test.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:48 am
bitter - party of one?
I think you missed one of the biggest points here: one of the most influential persons in this new weird mashup of the tech / entertainment industries just endorsed a DRM free world (for music, anyway). Your conclusions all seem to focus on the continuation of DRM in some form or another. Why?
February 7th, 2007 at 11:52 am
The real reason is because I’m realistic. I know that we’ll never live in a DRM free world. Yeah, that’d be ideal, and that’s what Jobs is preaching, but ever since Napster, the music industry will be especially reluctant to go for it. Plus, now that DVDs have such a huge install base, the movie industry thinks it HAS to have DRM. Sorry folks, DRM is around to stay, unless some people start getting real.
Since it’s going to stick around, I thought of the best case scenario where DRM still exists, but is somewhat cross-platform compatible.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
yeah, but Steve is magic.
:)