Apple builds in DRM hardware – Is this the end for Apple?

Apple is building in some copy-protection hardware making it impossible to play DRM content wherever you want even if you buy it. It’s the same thing as with Itunes shop: If I buy a song there it will cost me a dollar or so and the only thing I get is the possibility to NOT play it wherever I want. If I copy it from a file-share server instead I will pay nothing and be able to play the song wherever I want.

How can that help out the record industry?

Now Apple is adding some hardware in their machines so that we can’t play bought content wherever we want. This is a whole lot of crap and upsets me a lot.

November 19th, 2008 in English, Society | tags:
  • http://ics.ilionx.com ursie

    Well its all about legal or Illegal.

    I mean why should you work for your money ? its for free to pick up at the local shop around te corner. You will need a pistol for that but thats only a minor detail.

    This has nothing to do with Mac. Its a shift what is happening all around the world with all Hard & Software builders. If we like it or not it is going to happen to all hardware ne software over time.

  • Joachim Dagerot

    Yes, it’s about being legal or illegal but not only. The problem is that it’s been so much easier to be illegal than legal for so many years now that it has changed the way a whole population thinks.
    Today many (most?) people consider Internet as a library and consumes everything that’s on the net as they consume TV and radio.

    But my point is that I don’t think the right path is to try to make it harder to file copy but that we need another billing system. As long as you can hear and see anything you can also copy it so this is a fight the movie- and record industry can’t win. They gotta come up with solutions that makes it better and easier to buy their products legally, today it’s the opposite as I show in my post. The way of adding DRM in the hardware just makes me avoiding DRM even more.

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