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In a few weeks it'll be my friends birthday. I want to give them a cd, bought from the iTunes store (I'm too lazy to go out there and buy it myself), but then I've got the problem of legality. Can't someone make it so as that you can 'gift' a song to someone (like a friend, family member, etc), and
the song just disappears from your computer, so as the legal sharks won't get on your tail, if they ever find out?
malicious use of DRM technology
http://en.wikipedia..._protection_scandal
[xaviergisz, Nov 15 2006]
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//Can't someone make it so as // |
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But how? Nice idea here but I would like to see you elaborate. Withholding bun untill. |
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Well, like how you e-mail attachments to people, but permanent. |
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Couldn't you just delete the copy from your hard drive, sort of like the way you go up to a counter and pay for the item you've just picked up instead of stuffing it under your shirt? |
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//Couldn't you just delete the copy from your hard drive?// Now, where's the fun in that? |
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The fun is in NOT deleting it. Much like the given comparison. |
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It should be fairly easy for iTunes to allow a song to be sent to another account assuming the sender knew the reciever's username. It would be like putting money into someone else's bank account. |
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I have a problem with the deletion part
of this idea. In order for it to be
regulated so that you can't send music
you've already made a backup of, some
kind of rootkit would have to be
installed on your computer that would
limit your computing freedom, kind of
like what Sony did with Windows. Bad
idea. |
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And there's still the problem of being able to connect the speaker port of one computer to the microphone port of another. |
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Isn't this just one of the manefestations of DRM (Digital Rights Management) - a malicious and insidious technology which will be incorporated into every piece of software, song, CD, DVD, computer and electronic device in the near future. |
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What's malicious about requiring that people be paid for work that they've done? |
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<rant>Because this 20th-century "information as a product" notion is absurd.</rant> |
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A believe that artists should be compensated for their work. However the industry needs to be reinvented now that technological infrastructure has made the distribution of large amounts of information trivial. DRM is but a hack designed to pull the carpet over a bad business model. |
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[frog] If it's really an MP3, there is no DRM. Just give it to your friend, then remove it from your machine. Your intentions are clearly in the right place, and I can't imagine anyone convicting you of stealing, since you aren't. You don't need a corporation controlling your every action to do the right thing. |
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Generally, you're right. This seems to be one (of many) flaw of DRM schemes - they at the very least make giving a song difficult. |
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