Comment Re: Is SDMI a consumer's nightmare : Answers! (Score 1) 253
Your reply to the original question was excellent, technically. It seems, however, that you did not read (or ignored) some of the other more pressing arguments against SDMI.
1. If SDMI is in any way more restrictive than MP3s or any other similar format, why should the consumer buy it? The benefits to the music industry and RIAA are not factors to the consumer. Musicians will still make music, and money, the old way.
2. As has been raised countless times in posts in this thread, the only music you can't duplicate is music you cannot hear. If you can hear it, you can record it ... to MP3.
3. IMHO (and I've seen thise elsewhere), two of the major reasons music gets pirated at all is the high cost of CDs and the fact that many people purchase a CD of 12-17 tracks to hear 3 of them for a month or two.
It's been proven time and again that technical merits bow to more subjective issues.
One more thing ...
[Milo_Mindbender wrote]
1. It appears you can't move the music files around on your disk. They get
stored in an encrypted form and if you try and reorganize them other than
through the SDMI compliant software, they go boom!
[End]
[Anonymous Coward replied]
== Answer ==
The files must be stored in a protected manner, but the fact that the system breaks when the files get moved around your file system is not a result of SDMI. This is probably because the implementation expects the files to be in a particular location.
[End]
The content of the post and the fact that he composed such a lengthy post both suggest to me that he's a little beyond making such an elementary error as that.
Res ipsa loquitor.
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DataHntr
1. If SDMI is in any way more restrictive than MP3s or any other similar format, why should the consumer buy it? The benefits to the music industry and RIAA are not factors to the consumer. Musicians will still make music, and money, the old way.
2. As has been raised countless times in posts in this thread, the only music you can't duplicate is music you cannot hear. If you can hear it, you can record it
3. IMHO (and I've seen thise elsewhere), two of the major reasons music gets pirated at all is the high cost of CDs and the fact that many people purchase a CD of 12-17 tracks to hear 3 of them for a month or two.
It's been proven time and again that technical merits bow to more subjective issues.
One more thing
[Milo_Mindbender wrote]
1. It appears you can't move the music files around on your disk. They get
stored in an encrypted form and if you try and reorganize them other than
through the SDMI compliant software, they go boom!
[End]
[Anonymous Coward replied]
== Answer ==
The files must be stored in a protected manner, but the fact that the system breaks when the files get moved around your file system is not a result of SDMI. This is probably because the implementation expects the files to be in a particular location.
[End]
The content of the post and the fact that he composed such a lengthy post both suggest to me that he's a little beyond making such an elementary error as that.
Res ipsa loquitor.
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DataHntr
