An interesting project dies because of DRM: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...drm-announces-plans-to-return-all-funds.shtml
An interesting project dies because of village idiots.
Pretty much not a single of those comments was about DRM but about the delay, "no need for DRM please ship the sticks as they are" none of them just realized that the 6+ months are needed regardless.
The truth is that the project died because the OpenFlint stack isn't ready, and if they would've shipped them without the ability to get Hulu, Netflix and any other content provider they backers would've been just as angry.
P.S.
OpenFlint is still very much active, not that it came upto anything, the stick it self wasn't the core of the project...
They could ship it for DRM-free options. Netflix and Hulu can get lost. Anyway, DRM wasn't part of the original deal, so those who demanded the stick without DRM had legitimate demands regardless.
I wish Valve, EA, UBI, Blizzard and Activision (u.a.) will suffer from the same issue ... some day.
Be forced to "remove" the requirement of their fucking clients ... for the games they distribute on
their platform...
Will not happen though .... most likely
... i still hope and pray to my druid gods for that!Not within the original time frame which is exactly what killed the project, OpenFlint is unusable garbage atm, FF OS isn't ready to ship, their IHV and OEM "partners" have also dropped support.
Heck DRM aside they couldn't even get Plex onboard, all you could get is a broken DLNA stick which is pretty pointless since every TV on the planet supports DLNA, most of them support Screencast or WIDI.
While you can say to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video to get lost that's what pretty much everyone uses their TV's for these days, so what exactly are you going to use this stick for? a paper weight?
They wanted to be Roku which is already open source, they wanted to develop their own stack and refused to even use Webkit as their layout engine they failed not because of DRM but because of poor expectation management and general stupidity.
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They can upload video to the stick and watch it DRM-free without any DRM garbage there. Or if they want streaming they can use DRM-free streaming services (Youtube and the rest).
They might have failed because of bad execution, but they could surely make something useful without using any DRM.
Wikileaks published the final IP chapter of TPP, and it's the usual expected DRM riddled garbage: https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/
More detailed rundown of various nastiness in latest leaked TPP IP chapter: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared
Instead of admitting that DRM is futile and pointless, WB and DCP LLC (it's really Intel) freak out about devices which break HDCP 2.2: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...es-hd-fury-over-boxes-that-can-copy-4k-video/
And of course they wave with the infamous DMCA-1201 which shouldn't even exist in the first place.
Authors of those devices should better publish their method so others could implement it as well, thus rendering all those complaints from WB as pointless as DRM itself is.
And of course they wave with the infamous DMCA-1201 which shouldn't even exist in the first place.
Authors of those devices should better publish their method so others could implement it as well, thus rendering all those complaints from WB as pointless as DRM itself is.
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Film about Aaron Swartz, the key person in defeating SOPA. He passed away three years ago.
You can also see his talk about SOPA here:
You can also see his talk about SOPA here:
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Bandcamp promise to keep DRM-free downloads, while Apple (supposedly) plan to gut them:
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2016/05/19/bandcamp-downloads-streaming-and-the-inescapably-bright-future/
CDPR should really support DRM-free services like Bandacmp by releasing their soundtracks there, instead of DRM infested iTunes, Sptotify and Co.
https://blog.bandcamp.com/2016/05/19/bandcamp-downloads-streaming-and-the-inescapably-bright-future/
CDPR should really support DRM-free services like Bandacmp by releasing their soundtracks there, instead of DRM infested iTunes, Sptotify and Co.
Netflix joined the dark side (MPAA DRM lobby) and left Internet Association: https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/22/netflix-joins-mpaa/