[Advocacy] SOM FAQ is now online

[Ian Malone]

On 10/08/07, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't believe OM is technologically mutually exclusive
> > with DRM, provided you are willing to ignore the brokeness
> > of DRM in general.  But the people who want DRM don't
> > see it that way.
>
> I remember somewhere in 2005 an online store owner came to vorbis or
> vorbis-dev lists and requested us to get a DRM scheme on Vorbis.
>

2006 http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/2006-February/026238.html

> Anyone may create a version of Vorbis with DRM, but would it play on
> every player out there or just the player authored by the DRM creator?
>  And that's where the whole DRM argument collapses.  Nobody would want
> something like that, both consumers and developers.  Someone would end
> up cracking the DRM'd files and make them normal Vorbis files.
>

See also iPod (apparently consumers were persuaded to swallow it).
Right down to "brokeness of DRM in general," as I mentioned above.
However I believe you could open-spec a DRM system, it would
be no weaker than a proprietary one, but ultimately you have to
trust the end user.  Of course DRM is no longer really about stopping
the organised counterfeiter and hasn't been for some time.

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imalone