[nylug-talk] TIme to get a Nokia N810

[Chris Knadle]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Christopher Yee Mon wrote:
> I think it was actually the Ogg Theora format that Nokia is trying to
> get rid of as an HTML5 standard, not Ogg vorbis.

   Got it.  Thanks for the correction.

> Their argument being that it can't be DRMed.

   That really isn't funny.
   DRM and videos are a problem, as was proven recently when the MLB dropped 
support for their old DRM system:

   http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/07/mlb-rips-off-fans-wh.html


  And I just recently read Richard Stallman's story, "The Right to Read" 
concerning DRM and access controls, and the more I think about it the less I 
consider it science fiction.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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