While they're working on spreading those laws around, it's turning into an uphill struggle. Not to mention, they're under a fair bit of attack already, even in the US. The legislation is too little, too late. Too many people have already got the idea - it's like trying to eliminate alcohol or cannabis use through legislation.
Secondly, we'll lose option 3 when they pry Ogg and MP3 from our cold, dead fingers. The hardware manufacturers are (albeit discretely) on our side - just look at all those "region encoded" DVD players with accidentally-public backdoors. (Barring foot-in-both-camps merchants like Sony, anyhow)
As soon as people discover just how much grief the DRM systems entail, like getting their expensive music collection nuked when their hard drive crashes, they'll catch on.
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Date: 2004-01-27 15:50 (UTC)Secondly, we'll lose option 3 when they pry Ogg and MP3 from our cold, dead fingers. The hardware manufacturers are (albeit discretely) on our side - just look at all those "region encoded" DVD players with accidentally-public backdoors. (Barring foot-in-both-camps merchants like Sony, anyhow)
As soon as people discover just how much grief the DRM systems entail, like getting their expensive music collection nuked when their hard drive crashes, they'll catch on.