> it seems like they have a hopeless battle ahead of them. my son's friend
> called Sunday b/c his gf's laptop died. They brought it over here to see
> if it was the hardware failure it sounded like from their description of
> the prob. Yep. In the course of convo, this guy, who uses a computer
> like a toaster -- e.g., stand alone email's too complicated, use Yahoo!
> -- *did* bother to go far enough to figure out how to download movies so
> he can watch 'em before they hit the big screen.
>
> on the rest, thanks. I was reading somewhere that Vista's deal is that
> it uses a lot of memory b/c it has processes running in some mystery
> stew of interconnectivity where one lousy emailmessage might be calling
> on processes that seem completely unrelated. Why? I couldn't figure out
> from this superficial gloss of a tech mag article.
DRM and all forms of intellectural rights management face a very bleak future. It's just too easy to share files. Countries around the world are banning DRM technology. The public is very hostile towards the music industry. Some survey recently found that people rationalize downloading movies because Hollywood stars get paid so much.
Then there was a friend who worked for the RIAA several years ago, who told me at the time that the staff there were of the opinion that the industry had lost the file-sharing wars and they were just going through the motions.
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