Seems as though the RIAA and MPAA want to limit new technology for broadcasting and playing digital content such as movies, TV, radio broadcasts, CD’s, etc since so many people are stealing TV shows, movies, MP3’s, etc…
They are proposing to congress to “OK” any and every piece of equipment that would be able to do that first. If the RIAA doesn’t like it, it does not get approved to sell, etc…
Discuss!
BTW, a Republican Senator from Oregon (Gordon Smith) is helping them push this through…
I will never knowingly buy a piece of DRM-enabled equipment. One of the reasons I’ll never buy an ipod.
if that shit passes, i’m not just moving to a different state come june – i’m moving to a different country. :roll:
Best quote of the article…
"All that your humble journalist can conclude is the following: the US really wants to end up as a technological backmarker, after Japan, China, Britain, Germany and who knows what other countries… Heck, even in my Croatia with it’s 4.5 million inhabitants has 3G providers, DVB-T digital TV, pay-per-view cable TV operators… and yeah, people can freely save that phenomenal documentary or a TV series on HBO. Why we want to? Well, maybe because I was at work while the show was on.
I wonder what it would take to get Americans to take a really deep look at their nation and choose progress instead of repression. Since I have lived in an unusually-liberal communist country, I can’t say I have experience like my colleagues from behind the iron curtain, but suggestions inside this draft just sound… USSR-style. µ"
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I dont understand why pay all that money for an IPOD and dont have the freedom to put whatever they want on it.Sony too,the minidisc/MP3 players SUCK.
Im moving to europe or canada.
I dont know what you guys are talking about. I got a nano because the interface cant be beat. I put whatever shit I want on there and have never had a issue.
RIAA cant get shit
you won’t really start to running into problems if only use one computer. you see it associates itself with your computer specifically when you first transfer data to it. after that time you can’t add any more files from other machines unless you’d like to completely wipe out the data you already have on device… obviously there are some pretty simple ways to circumvent this type of protection for those of us with external harddrives and whatnot, but some people will find it very inconvenient.
as for drm though, that stuff is the antichrist… :tdown:
and as for requiring a ‘RIAA/MPAA committee’ to approve the development of new media standards, fuck that too. :tdown: