Comments on: What happens when someone else controls what you already bought http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/04/what-happens-when-someone-else-controls-what-you-already-bought/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:33:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dean Jansen http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/04/what-happens-when-someone-else-controls-what-you-already-bought/comment-page-1/#comment-44281 Dean Jansen Sat, 10 May 2008 16:42:45 +0000 http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=428#comment-44281 Mike, A more apt analogy might be that the vendors leave you with all your 8-track cassettes intact, but they instantly destroy every 8-track player in the world. In other words, you still have the DRM'ed media file. However, if that media cannot phone home to verify your identity, it won't play. Thus when a DRM vendor folds, the media players stop phoning home, all of the media ceases to work, and all the money you spent was wasted. Pretty bad deal. Mike,

A more apt analogy might be that the vendors leave you with all your 8-track cassettes intact, but they instantly destroy every 8-track player in the world.

In other words, you still have the DRM’ed media file. However, if that media cannot phone home to verify your identity, it won’t play. Thus when a DRM vendor folds, the media players stop phoning home, all of the media ceases to work, and all the money you spent was wasted. Pretty bad deal.

]]> By: Mike T. http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/04/what-happens-when-someone-else-controls-what-you-already-bought/comment-page-1/#comment-44180 Mike T. Fri, 09 May 2008 07:56:28 +0000 http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=428#comment-44180 Your argument is flawed, sodapop. 8-tracks weren't replaced by CDs in handful of years (let's say, one year per finger) just because a company decided to turn off its DRM verification servers. They got phased out when better technology emerged and there was no longer a demand for 8-tracks. If you bought a video from MLB at the end of 2005, for example,--good luck. It doesn't work anymore. I can, however, play any 8-track I want to today, given that I have a player. Even as you say, I bought the media. But when DRM changes, or is "retired", or whatever, the company is rendering the "media" useless. Imagine them coming over and pulling the tape out of your 8-track. Your argument is flawed, sodapop. 8-tracks weren’t replaced by CDs in handful of years (let’s say, one year per finger) just because a company decided to turn off its DRM verification servers. They got phased out when better technology emerged and there was no longer a demand for 8-tracks.

If you bought a video from MLB at the end of 2005, for example,–good luck. It doesn’t work anymore.

I can, however, play any 8-track I want to today, given that I have a player. Even as you say, I bought the media. But when DRM changes, or is “retired”, or whatever, the company is rendering the “media” useless. Imagine them coming over and pulling the tape out of your 8-track.

]]> By: sodapop http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/04/what-happens-when-someone-else-controls-what-you-already-bought/comment-page-1/#comment-43889 sodapop Tue, 06 May 2008 06:17:09 +0000 http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=428#comment-43889 Do you guys complain you can't play an 8-track on a CD player? You bought 1 form of the media. You bought the form, not the media. No one is contolling what you own because you don't own it. Do you guys complain you can’t play an 8-track on a CD player? You bought 1 form of the media. You bought the form, not the media. No one is contolling what you own because you don’t own it.

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