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Torvalds Opinion Means Zinlch
Linus' opinion in the debate of DRM means absolutely nothing. The only people's opinions that matter are people who buy music legally, whether it's from a CD, DRM wrapped and the fledgling DRM free MP3s. In another 3-5 years, DRM wrapped music will either sink or swim. Some think it's days are numbered, put then again what's the alternative? Watermarked DRM free MP3s?

I'd bet even old Linus us against this alternative. And even if this did become a viable option, how do the artists, backed up by their labels and even the RIAA, got out an enforce these types of audio files being traded across P2P? They can't, so more than likely, any attempt at selling DRM free MP3 files will not stand any greater chance @ success than DRM wrapped music, simply because so many people will be able to download the files freely as they do now.

CD sales are falling while online purchases of at least iTunes are flat. Has anyone completed a recent or trustworthy study of what's going on over with P2P downloads? I haven't heard of anything recently, but I know LimeWire is working on a settlement with the RIAA and even BitTorrent seems to be inching towards legal downloads.

So the bottom line is that having DRM is not the call of Linux per say. If something like Sun's Open DRM becomes useful in the future along with a turn around in the adoption of DRM controlled audio files, then Linux will be forced at some point to adopt DRM if it expects to grow it's desktop market to anything close to Apple's Mac OSX.
Posted by: jjworleyeoe   Posted on: 01/16/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Torvalds: 'Hot air' in debates on GPL, content control  Loverock Davidson | 01/16/07
You wish that he said that, he did not  balsover | 01/16/07
he also said...  mdsmedia | 01/16/07
what part of this did you not understand  Arm A. Geddon | 01/16/07
Talk about Hot Air Loverock. Linus opposes DRM.  slim-01 | 01/17/07
Read it again, Rock.  Henry Miller | 01/16/07
Not quite that easy.  balsover | 01/16/07
huh?  Arm A. Geddon | 01/16/07
oops...I mean who are they? (nt)  Arm A. Geddon | 01/16/07
come again?? NT  mdsmedia | 01/16/07
Re: come again?? NT  none none | 01/16/07
Torvalds Opinion Means Zinlch  jjworleyeoe | 01/16/07
DRM arguments aside...  mdsmedia | 01/16/07
Nothing says you can't write a pseudo-DRM...  Henry Miller | 01/17/07
Not really...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/17/07
The point is...  Henry Miller | 01/17/07
Even in the Kernel it's bypassed  voska | 01/17/07
Torvalds is a rock-head this time!!  techboy_z | 01/17/07
So his opinions don't precisely match yours...  mdsmedia | 01/17/07
If you notice when Loverock is shown to be wrong he simply leaves  slim-01 | 01/17/07
A lot of OSS discussion is hot air  Mark Miller | 01/18/07

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