[Vorbis] DRM and Ogg Vorbis ??

[Andy]

Definitely.  No matter what kind of DRM the song is protected with, you can usually A) burn to a CD, then rip the CD, or B) hook up your sound output to a sound input, and record it in analog.  

Nothing made my church madder than when they bought a whole bunch of Christian songs on ITunes, then found out they couldn't play them in the powerpoint display we were doing at church.  You can eventually get it to work, but non-technical people don't know how, and for technical people, it can still take a while.

Plus, even though I may be paying less for a song or CD on ITunes than for what I would pay for a real copy at a real store, I'm also getting a lossy encoding of it, not a lossless one.  This isn't cool either.

Andy
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-----Original Message-----
>From: "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn at forestfield.org>
>
>Ulrich wrote:
>> I would like to know whether it is possible to use any DRM scheme with
>> Ogg-Vorbis ?
>> My idea would be to distribute music commercially and be able guarantee
>> to artists that they won't be copied freely.
>
>My advice is to recognize that no DRM scheme can "guarantee to artists that they
>[the tracks] won't be copied freely".  Any such scheme only adversely affects
>the people whose business you're trying to court.  You're going to be
>disappointed not only because you set your standards too high (such "guarantees"
>don't exist in the real world) but because you will have wasted a lot of time
>and money coming to realize this.
>
>Finally, when I buy music I would prefer to buy a FLAC compressed from an
>uncompressed recording of the artist, not some lossy-compressed variant (no
>matter how high-quality the encoding).  I can make my own lossy encodings, but I
>can't reconstruct the information that was lost when the lossy encoding was made.

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