Ever wonder why NPR content is available by streaming but not for download? (with the exception of "On The Media)? The answer is because of a confidential agreement that NPR struck up with the RIAA. This agreement covers streaming but forbids downloading unless they get paid a lot more. You can buy NPR shows from audible.com... Content which is available for free when streamed! Software that allows you to record or download streaming media is clandestine and often difficult to use. Realmedia works to alter their format to prevent downloading for later use. This situation is seriously fucked up. Podcasters are able to flourish because they avoid using RIAA music. As a musician I will work to create music which avoids labels and the RIAA.
http://www.wombatnation.com/2003/04/via ... rnet-radio
NPR Streaming and the RIAA
absolutely right - there's already (high quality) consumer gear where the content provider manages the routing - i.e. which analog audio video ports are activated during playback of digital content.
The gear has to have this 'closed box' behaviour, otherwise the manufacturer is excluded from supply of certain chips...
not amuzed, Tom
The gear has to have this 'closed box' behaviour, otherwise the manufacturer is excluded from supply of certain chips...
not amuzed, Tom
I seriously doubt anyone will buy that DRM sh*t, since it'll be more expensive (additional design/munging costs due to the DRM stuff) and do less (like playing only recent DRM-enabled media whatever thingy.) They've almost completely stopped selling those awful "copy-protected" CDs that didn't play in half the players. Palladium and stuff are probably going to get cracked within a week, just like console get modchipped pretty trivially.