Re: WMP 9 OS X & DRM
- From: wizbang <wizbang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 08:47:00 -0800
"crispy" wrote:
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:02:49 -0800
From: "Flip4Mac Support" <flipsupport@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Flip4Mac Capabilities
[...]
We would like to offer DRM support as well. However, currently, Microsoft
has not indicated that they will make DRM implementation available for
Flip4Mac. It may come at a later date but we have no reason to expect it
soon.
Best regards,
Joyce
Flip4Mac Support
Now I will grant you that perhaps my words are harsh, and that she does not
indicate that Microsoft is outright refusing this technology to Flip4Mac, but
given the history of Microsoft's willingness to provide Mac users of Windows
Media to DRM licenses over version one, I do not think that her words "we
have no reason to expect it any time soon." Given that Microsoft did not
update Windows Media Player for Macintosh for two years, and then despite
their stated committment to continuing to update it, cancelling its
development altogether, I don't have a lot of hope for this.
And quite frankly, I don't really like Windows Media. I've seen other picky
debates on here about it's quality, and I'll just say that for me, other
formats work better. I'd prefer to use those and not have to deal with DRM
issues at all. However, since many providers are now using Windows Media
content with DRM licencing over version one, and as no other players have
this technology, I was stuck with the hope that I could eventually access it
with the Windows Media Player for Mac. I would prefer to get to access it
with something else, but as Joyce says, "there is no reason to expect it
soon."
And I have a hard time believing that so many major providers knowingly
elected to use a technology that would decrease their market, although
perhaps that is the case with some of them. But I would like to hear that
from the providers themselves, not just Microsoft. The answers in most of
the FAQs I've seen (Amazon.com and MTV, for example), indicate that they
expected Microsoft to eventually release a Windows Media Player for Macintosh
that would allow the viewing of their content, or to at least allow others to
develop software that would.
And that is the problem here.
Well I hope Microsoft does the "right thing". Now that news, etc is being
published in video (and many of the unknowing have published in the most
recent DRM) It may come down to some legality if microsoft knowingly
withholds this information. They tend to go through life with blinders on
until the justice department is knocking on their door. Personally I would
hope that they would do the right thing. Until they do I'm going on a email
campaign to get the content providers to move to a different platform when
the time comes to upgrade (Quicktime, Real)
.
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