Comments on: Who?s In Control? http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/whos-in-control/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:30:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: James Laver http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/whos-in-control/#comment-58870 James Laver Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:26:04 +0000 #comment-58870 I've said it for a while, and it's not going away. the sad fact of life is that you can't trust the content holders any more. It started with talk of palladium, it continued to talk of DRM, and now look where we are, a sony rootkit, various nasty DRMs and DRM that can revoke the right to play content you've paid for. Add that to sony's announcement you'll pay for songs on a per-play basis and you don't have to look far to see the consumer is getting screwed.<br /> <br /> We'll just have to wait until i finish my new media site - no DRM, decent music, and fair on the artists. I've said it for a while, and it's not going away. the sad fact of life is that you can't trust the content holders any more. It started with talk of palladium, it continued to talk of DRM, and now look where we are, a sony rootkit, various nasty DRMs and DRM that can revoke the right to play content you've paid for. Add that to sony's announcement you'll pay for songs on a per-play basis and you don't have to look far to see the consumer is getting screwed.

We'll just have to wait until i finish my new media site – no DRM, decent music, and fair on the artists.

]]> By: Marc Freedman http://www.digitaltrends.com/talk-backs/whos-in-control/#comment-58869 Marc Freedman Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:47:10 +0000 #comment-58869 Mark, well said. The entertainment industry has successfully lobbied and bullied for the giveaway on consumer rights for several years with little pushback and no one to support the people. I write on this at <a href="http://digitalmusicfuture.com/" title="http://digitalmusicfuture.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://digitalmusicfuture.com/</a> and <a href="http://p2p-weblog.com/." title="http://p2p-weblog.com/." target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://p2p-weblog.com/.</a> Mark, well said. The entertainment industry has successfully lobbied and bullied for the giveaway on consumer rights for several years with little pushback and no one to support the people. I write on this at http://digitalmusicfuture.com/ and http://p2p-weblog.com/.

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