iConsume gear won't endanger iProduce gear:
. Cory Doctorow, makezine 2006.11 p16
says that because pc's are potential hdtv tuners,
the drm requirements placed on receiver parts
would spread to all pc parts .
. that wouldn't make sense because
drm is esp'ly for iConsume gear;
whereas, there will also be a market for
computers used as iProduce gear
-- to produce what is being consumed;
and, design of computer parts will be
most efficient when confining tuner req's to
tuner modules,
so there will always be cheap parts for
building pc's that are useful to open source
and the sampling of open content .
. the same hysteria is being applied to
Apple's iConsume line (ipad, iphone, etc)
which are seen as a dangerous precident
having even open content
controlled by the unit's drm
-- why would ipad ever mean the end of iProducers
like the imac and macbook?
3.22: news.addn`gear/mac/ipad is drm happy:
. DRM is used by Apple to control
installation of software
and to regulate every use of movies
downloaded from iTunes.
Apple furthermore claims that
circumventing these restrictions
is a criminal offense, even for purposes
that are permitted by copyright law.
. critics of DRM have asserted that
publishers are insisting on the restrictions.
However, on the iPhone, iPad, ...
Apple does not provide open content publishers
with any way to opt out of the restrictions
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