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The title of this post refers to many things in life – teaching someone a skill, engaging with clients on work, incompatible file formats.
Incompatible file formats? Yes.
Over the weekend we bought a couple of new albums from iTunes. Obviously, they work all across the house where we have a shared iTunes library. [...]
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Regular readers here will already be aware of my low opinion of DRM, not because I think the labels/distributors/evil overlords are on to a good thing but because:
DRM restricts user rights post-purchase – the “I should be able to play this where and when I want” argument
DRM hurts content creators – content creators invariably sign [...]
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My wife, Alli, has a number of PDF ebooks she purchased from the Center for Creative Leadership. These ebooks come with built in DRM for anti-printing. They also seem tied somehow to an Adobe Reader version earlier than Adobe Reader 8. When she had Reader 7 installed, they worked fine. She [...]
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Steve Jobs has written an open letter to the music industry, positing that the best thing for the labels, consumers and music player manufacturers is to abolish DRM altogether:
The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, [...]
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