Re: DRM 7

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From: Red Claw (redclawx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:28:34 -0500

On 1/10/05 2:50 PM, in article 41E2DC76.8050802@Nospam.mvps.org, "Mike
Williams [MVP]" <mikew@Nospam.mvps.org> wrote:

> Red Claw wrote:
>
>> How is QuickTime spamware? That's a new one on me.
>
> Even slashdotters call QT (visual) spamware.
>
> If your referencing the
>> little "Buy QuickTime Pro" add that QT Player throws up every once in a
>> while, that's not smap, that's add. If your referencing the form to fill
>> out on the downloads page for QuickTime, there are no required fields, just
>> uncheck everything and leave the e-mail field blank. Apple doesn't force
>> you to sign up for anything.
>>
>> TIFF is a picture format, so is JPG, BMP, and PCT. MOV is a container.
>
> TIFF is a container format which can contain different image formats of
> various codecs. That's why it is quite common to have TIFFs that can't
> be opened in all TIFF readers. See for example
> http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/faq.html: " Another major
> difference between most other image file formats and TIFF, is that TIFF
> allows for a wide range of different compression schemes and color
> spaces. These are specified in dedicated tags. Where other file formats
> are often designed to suit a single compression method, TIFF allows for
> JPEG or JBIG compression, the infamous LZW or the free-as-a-bird deflate
> compression, amongst many others. "
>
>> So my original question still stands:"When is Microsoft going to ship
>> Windows Media Player for Mac that has DRM 7?"
>
> You are not going to find out on this newsgroup as it does not get
> announcements from Microsoft that have not already been made available
> elsewhere. Microsoft barely pays any attention to the Windowsmedia
> newsgroups (unlike newsgroups for other products).

OK, so I was wrong with TIFF. I stand corrected.

That's still beside the point of MS not supporting DRM7 for the Mac. DRM7
should not be a feature request or a wish. IF MS has DRM7 on the PC side of
it's application then it should be demanded on the Mac side for that same
application.

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