Gates: DRM is too complicated for users
It looks there’s still something in Bill Gates after all. Microsoft boss Bill Gates has told a group of influential bloggers that copy protection for digital music and video is too complex for consumers. Mr Gates was speaking to an invited party of bloggers and web developers at Microsoft’s Seattle headquarters. Digital Rights Management (DRM), which is used to stop copying, is a big issue for some people who feel it limits what they can do with legally bought files. “DRM is not where it should be,” said Mr Gates. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch.com, said Bill Gates’ short-term advice for people wanting to transfer songs from one system to another was to “buy a CD and rip it”.
Wow, I would never say someone like Bill can say this. Most CDs do not have any copy protection and can be copied to a PC and to an MP3 player easily and, in the United States at least, legally. Some other countries consider this as an illegal activity though. What’s most surprising about this is thatMicrosoft is one of the biggest exponents of DRM, which is used to protect music and video files on lots of different online services, including Napster and the Zune store. It’s nice to say something, but acts matter…
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So whats going to happen? Are they scrapping the whole DRM format? Or just stating the obvious
I’m afraid the second option is way more probable…
they cant do this shit its not a fucking window vista
ill keep xp for sure. next year when im gonna buy a new pc, im gonna buy it without OS. linux ubuntu is also the shit
Don’t assume he’s more human just because of what he said. They stand to make more money by pushing their mp3 players when buying mp3s online is slowly declining and their players would mean straight income rather than giving so much to the artist and the companies involved.
The idea behind preventing the piracy of music by adding code to it is flawed. All protection can be removed (or added if that is the protection) but the difference between music and software is that music doesn’t have upgrades so it’s removed and that’s the end of it. Software can connect to the internet to verify things, have patches to require cracking again, and so on so forth. Bill realizes that and goes with what makes him the most money.
Even if bill was to protect Zune in a way that would require constant upgrades & protection changes, he’d have no where to go with iPod being his competition. So don’t read into his words too much. It’s the other things he left unsaid that speak on the subject.
windows xp will be supported till 2012-13..or stopped till that time frame. Till then I be using windows xp.
Really ? But DRM is the only reason I bought a bran new computer to run Vista !
(Quote Mr.X)Really ? But DRM is the only reason I bought a bran new computer to run Vista ! …..LOL……I built mine to install Starforce…..