Monday, April 3, 2006
The music players with DRM also consume more battery
Since our Palm met many times with the MP3 player function, we are also interested in this topic. To catch up on these issues of digital protection, and the resulting decline in our rights as consumers, make a visit to the Wikipedia:
The Digital rights management or digital restrictions management (DRM abbreviated English Digital Rights Management) is a term that aglomera all technologies designed to exert restrictions on users of a system or force the digital rights allowed by the commission of possessing copyright and regardless of the user's willingness to use the system. Generally these devices are installed as a precondition to the distribution of non-free software, music, e-books or any type of file is subject to copyright.
The availability of multiple perfect copies of copyrighted material is perceived by the media industry as a blow to its feasibility and costs, particularly within the music industry and film. Those who publish material digital typically have business models that fall on the ability to obtain a fee for each digital copy of the work done, and sometimes for each execution of such work. DRM was created or designed by those who publish digital content such as measures to help control the duplication and dissemination of their contents.
Now that we know what this is about DRM, it is important to have clear ideas:
Sellers and publishers of DRM coined the term DRM (Digital Rights Management) to refer to the types of technical measures discussed here. Because the "rights" rather technical capacity, that the "owner" of the content offered are not necessarily the same legal rights as a consumer of content, DRM critics argue that the phrase "digital rights management" has a name wrong. For these critics the term "digital restrictions management" or digital restrictions management is a more accurate characterization of the functionality of DRM systems.
Lately say owner of such content is very risky, the licenses are going to be a "loan". Ie music, but pay for it, it is not yours, but you provided the company with which the purchases. This applies both in CD format as downloaded from the Internet, so if you buy a music CD only yours truly is the medium, ie the CD itself (plastic).
The controls of DRM is proposed to be implemented through the so-called reliable computing (trusted-computing). Paradoxically, however, creates the prospectus of a computer system that can not be trusted by the user, because their behavior can be handled remotely at any time, regardless of the merits that such manipulations are legal. Most opponents have little faith that the courts and legislatures will be capable of handling such a limit to what is legally permissible.
To see what DRM means to the end, worth an example of the type of subscription Napster: Users can download or listen to streaming music all they want, but as soon cease to pay a monthly fee, all music downloaded no longer be usable. Napster also charges a fee of $ 5 a month if we listen to these files in our portable player, and if we want to record music on CD, for each track will pay $ 99 extra. To round off, music downloaded from Napster, you can not listen on an iPod.
As we see, the main disadvantages of DRM are:
- The multimedia content downloaded that is not ours, we just have an agreement to perform certain actions with him.
- The conditions under which we use such content (which we have paid) may change at any time, as determined by the supplier.
- DRM formats are often mutually incompatible, so if we trust a supplier, we can only reproduce this content on where he decides, and therefore restricts the player (both hardware and software) that we will use. On the other hand, are not supported environments such as Linux, in principle will be unable to reproduce this content.
If we think are few drawbacks to the use of DRM brings to consumers (who also have paid for content, have not obtained illegally), we have to add the possible discovery that gives its name to this post. I quote what they have in Barrapunto.com:
[...] Playing songs "protected" with DRM systems consume more power. How much more? As an ipod batteries that only playing songs from iTunes with DRM will last about 8% less time to download an iPod that only plays songs in MP3 format. And the batteries in a Creative Zen, which last 16 hours playing MP3 songs, if only lasts 12 hours playing songs with a system of digital restrictions WMA (Windows Media Audio). [...] That is 25% less battery power. It is already known [...] if a purchase is what DRM is spending more money on having fewer benefits.
As a story, tell it to search Google to see if this news was already putting I have come across an advertisement for a converter of audio files: "Copy music with DRM legally." It is a format converter so that anyone with a song legally purchased from stores that use DRM from Apple or Microsoft can copy it to your other listening devices. This leads me two thoughts: first, that there are people he calls "piracy" to the pure and simple interoperability. And secondly, that [...] bits that do not copiables is like trying to make water not wet.
Attempts are being made to introduce the DRM without informing consumers, trying to lift the minor stir as possible. That is why it is imperative that we know exactly the situation in order to decide between buying our media into a place where DRM is used or not.
Published: it is interesting to see what is happening in France with Apple.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm News
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I got an mp3 player from Panasonic that uses SD cards. (Like the palm, I thought). But oh surprise that uses its own DRM format to move songs and mp3 does not reads them directly. it is important to look at these things, greetings
Thanks for the information Carlos.
Hence, I mean. We need to be aware of these issues, to know what to buy. Because if you are not going to implement all the measures they want and when we realize is already late, and we can not reverse the situation.
and that would affect me in the te2?
that would affect me as my user of a te2
Well, I do not think there are players for PalmOS that support for any DRM protected music, so for the moment we are constrained to not being able to play the music they buy at the store iTunes and similar services.
One may feel upset with this but that's like asking the engineer in a car that was stopped when the engine let's take it or leaded petrol adulterated with the car faithfully comply with environmental legislation and taxation in return for leaving his driver on the road (even to him who have made it). I prefer not to have the opportunity to play the files with DRM.
By the way, it's DRM seem to me something similar to that of the shopkeeper who opened his shop and offered them a shot from a shotgun, shocked to potential customers (of course you pay attention, but they emerge feet).