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Microsoft Talking To The Recording Industry About Copy Protection
from the well-that's-useless dept
It looks like Cory Doctorow's talk to Microsoft about why copy protection is bad for everyone -- including the recording industry, customers, and Microsoft itself -- didn't have much of an impact. Microsoft is now in talks with the recording industry about how to build copy protection into their next generation operating system to make sure you can't actually do what you want with the music you buy. Of course, this is likely to be an expensive waste of time that will only annoy legitimate buyers by causing problems. The people who really want to copy music will figure out workarounds. The large counterfeiters will already have big workarounds, so it won't impact their business at all. The only people impacted will be people who want to do perfectly legitimate things with the music they bought, but find out they're blocked because Microsoft and the recording industry doesn't trust them.
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Looks like out of all the languages that Cory's bragged about his speech being translated into on Boing Boing, none of them actually resonated with the folks to whom he delivered it...
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And of course this means that Linux won't be able to play CD music any more...
Surprise!
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Bragging
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who noticed that.
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Microsoft already making inroads in CD mastering
I wonder how many people know just how deep Microsoft has penetrated into recording studios?
http://www.hdcd.com/
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