Jan. 12th, 2010

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Here We Go Again: Video Standards War 2010 - ConsortiumInfo.org:
Instead, what's involved are two different approaches intended to help content vendors somehow survive in the face of plummeting revenues and a continuing plague of piracy while allowing legal content owners to watch videos on whatever device they want, wherever and whenever they want, without having to carry around the original media on which they purchased, for example, a movie.
so how does that jive with...

MPAA Enjoys Record Breaking Profits – Again!:
Box office ticket sales up more than an astounding 9% over last year for a new record breaking total of $10.5 billion dollars, making it the second biggest year over year growth ever.
And for anybody who thinks DRM is a "good thing", I give you

Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans - Boing Boing:
Walmart will be shutting down our digital rights management system that supports protected songs and albums purchased from our site.
They weren't the first.  Servers of DRM for some video sites back in the 90s were outsourced to a dot-bomb, so thousands of digital movies not only became useless to the customers who'd purchased them, they also became useless as (in a few cases) the only clean copy of the work for the provider themselves.

They won't be the last, either.  DRM quite simply means "your license for this media only works for as long as I feel like making it work.  When I decide to reveal that I really don't give a shit, you'll know."

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