On 05/05/13 17:52, tom wrote:
On 05/05/13 14:41, Simon Robert
-Cottage wrote:
On 02/05/13 00:58, bad apple wrote:
For example, on the very rare occasion I want
to watch something on C4 On Demand - which absolutely does *not* work on
Linux
I find absolutely no problem with C4, not that I want to watch
competitive cooking or property porn...
My desktop is I think a bog standard kubuntu one with the
medibuntu repo stuff added, certainly did nothing special to
make this stuff work.
On DRM and streaming there is this from The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/03/mozilla_otoy_announce_orbx/
Of course I don't really want to even pay for a TV licence, but
in principle accept creators should get paid and that really and
truly I should stump up a few quid (just so long as it's by
series/episode/etc). But this looks like a form of DRM I could
live with. It looks like stuff could be copied and even shared
with friends, but one stands the possibility of being nuked if
you seed it to TPB.
I wait to be shot down...
S
I don’t want to pay the TV license - but it is a lot cheaper and
better than the alternatives.
The thing about DRM is it doesn’t work - its a sticking plaster
on a business model with serious heart and lung disease.
Watermarking sounds OK but if you get some malware on your PC that
downloads and distributes content the above business model will
come to you for its revenge and make your life hell until (IF) you
can prove you weren’t at fault. It doesn’t solve the problem of
someone thinking they can use public space privately.
Tom te tom te tom
huh, syntax?
so how content providers doing wonderful stuff like Game Of Thrones
actually generate money! I want HBO to make gzillion £. Are you
going to found it, it don't think so...
I use linux, maybe you do? Malware is no problem. So stop FUD. So
how does a system with no way of copying everything for free to
anyoneine work? These guys make the most expensive fantasy series
ever with world class actors. Yes every Monday I downwlod from TPB,
but I would pay money.
It is a Game of Thrones versus some paranoid git isn't it
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