Jon Healey

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    • ON: Thu Jan 3rd 23:42 PM
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      Hollywood Goes Too Far to Protect Content
      I've seen that message a few times in relation to music, and had the same reaction you did: why jeopardize the tracks I've paid for? Most recently, if I'm remembering this correctly, it was in connection with a Rhapsody-to-go or similar portable subscription thing (Yahoo's, maybe?) that I was testing for the sake of writing about it.
      This situation reflects the entertainment industry's ambition to achieve a secure delivery path all the way to the final audio or video rendering. And the problem, IMHO, is that they're trying to retrofit this security onto mix-and-match equipment that wasn't designed for it. Once consumer-electronics and IT companies settle on interoperable, domain-based DRMs, maybe things will get better. Maybe. But even then, people with older equipment will be denied the ability to make full use of the gear they paid for. It's like an early adopter penalty.
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