How a digital-only smartphone opens the door to DRM (and how to close the door)
Two reasons: One, the DMCA (basically) only applies to formats that have some sort of encryption (even trivial encryption) and CDs don’t have any. Two, CDs had been designed before the DMCA and were...
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How a digital-only smartphone opens the door to DRM (and how to close the door)
Jorpho: …In the end, isn’t this fundamentally impossible? Not once they finish the iBrain neural interface. Read full topic
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oCrap. Read full topic
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Maybe they plan to stream the mp3 to the headphones and put the dac inside them. Read full topic
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A digital-only smartphone does not “open the door to DRM” any more than an analog only smartphone does. In the first years, Apple’s music for the iPod (an analog-audio only device) was saddled with...
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It’s funny how I can predict who is writing articles just by looking at the titles at this point. #JustRegularThings Read full topic
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NorthSaanichBC: Apple fought hard against the music companies, and finally won, allowing all music sold by Apple to be DRM-free! Do they sell lossless yet (like Bleep have been doing for a decade)? If...
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shhhh… you’re harshing cory’s anti-apple boner. Read full topic
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The only problem represented with that picture is power. In the first one the green is the phone which obviously gets its power from the battery. The digital setup has the DAC/amp powered by nothing...
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Power was just assumed on my part (I made the diagram). There’s no real difference in the setup but layout, and additional compromises mean moving the DAC/amp away from the mainboard to where it’s...
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Cory, are you really not aware that Apple removed DRM from all their music on iTunes years ago after fighting the Music Industry for years to do that? Read full topic
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Fast Company’s Mark Sullivan asked me to explain what could happen if Apple went through with its rumored plans to ship a phone with no analog sound outputs, only digital ones – what kind of DRM...
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I can see how getting rid of an analog output could pave the way to DRM (right now deactivating analog output for certain media would affect too many users; when most of them have DRM enabled...
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NorthSaanichBC: great real benefits of having a digital audio connection on a device. :: What are they? Honest question. Read full topic
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go_robot_go: They’re doing this because people who actually use their iPhones to listen to music do so wirelessly. go_robot_go: out in the open (Sonos) or over bluetooth headphones. Apple is a...
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It’s pretty easy to Google, but here you go anyway. 9to5Mac – 28 Jul 16 NPD: Wireless headphones exceed sales revenue of wired headphones for the month... Despite criticism, it appears that Apple’s...
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How a digital-only smartphone opens the door to DRM (and how to close the door)
Randell monroe seems to see the trend going the other way. xkcd.com xkcd Phone 4 The SpaceX system carefully guides falling phones down to the surface, a process which the phones increasingly often...
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Digital only outputs just open up the possibility of an equivalent to HDCP for audio devices, which doesn’t make sense if the file itself is DRM free. And the DRM free nature of modern music sales is...
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The thing everyone seems to keep missing about that NPD report is that bluetooth headphones accounted for the majority of dollar sales, not unit sales, which seems like an easy enough thing to...
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