[advocacy] Re: 1.0 Release? / CHIP 01/2002

[Daniel James]

> The biggest
> problem, as with most other formats, is the copy protection. 

er.. a problem for who? Are they suggesting that Ogg won't catch on 
because users demand files that they can't copy? MP3 remains widely 
used despite the fact that the content industry never officially 
supported it. So to imply that a format needs AOL Time Warner et al's 
support to survive rather overestimates the industry's power.

I still think we need to nail down the 'security' question. Could 
there be an Ogg encoder with GnuPG support to vorbize and sign files 
in one operation? Then we could pose the question to musicians 'does 
the 'secure' format you are using allow you to personally sign your 
internet releases, or does it just stop people from listening to it?'

Let's assume there's a free for personal use/fee for commercial use 
licence in place. Digital signing would offer a mechanism to make 
sure the right person got the commercial fees.

Take the case of Moby. One of his tunes, or something that sounded 
just like it, got used in a car advert without permission and he sued 
(and won). A signed file could help prove that a track was released 
before a certain date (and by whom), even if it was never issued on 
CD.    

> One last thing about group-3-compliant guides to Ogg, I will look a
> little into this ... maybe I get a nice idea and make a German and
> an English version.

I suggest working with MandrakeSoft. They support .ogg (mentioned 
alongside mp3 in the splash screens of their Linux installer, by the 
way) and do some excellent step-by-step graphical tutorials for 
beginners.

Daniel

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