http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/16/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/ a blog about information Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/16/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/comment-page-1/#comment-80557 YGG Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:35:38 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/16/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/#comment-80557 A post in Christian Nitot's blog http://standblog.org/blog/post/2007/01/17/Letonnant-parallele-entre-Frankenstein-et-les-DRM (president & founder, Mozilla Europe) "the amazing parallel between Frankestein & DRM" : * DRM gets in the way of sales, * everybody is scared of pirates * the music majors realized too late "the mistake they made when they left the power to copy in the user's hands" * Apple is the big winner there * Now Microsoft wants to join the fray with Zune & their DRM system * & they ruined Vista in the process * Virgin boss says "today it's more difficult to buy music than to steal it!"... Plus lots of links (most of them in French unfortunately)... A post in Christian Nitot’s blog http://standblog.org/blog/post/2007/01/17/Letonnant-parallele-entre-Frankenstein-et-les-DRM (president & founder, Mozilla Europe) “the amazing parallel between Frankestein & DRM” :
* DRM gets in the way of sales,
* everybody is scared of pirates
* the music majors realized too late “the mistake they made when they left the power to copy in the user’s hands”
* Apple is the big winner there
* Now Microsoft wants to join the fray with Zune & their DRM system
* & they ruined Vista in the process
* Virgin boss says “today it’s more difficult to buy music than to steal it!”…
Plus lots of links (most of them in French unfortunately)…

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