http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/gates-interview-part-four-communists.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/gates-interview-part-four-communists.html/comment-page-1#comment-20856 Anonymous Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4460#comment-20856 I totally agree, but I don't think many people who read Gizmodo and believe DRM is bad is smart enough to understand that. Because the question about transcoding was very stupid. The Gizmodo guy thinks converting from one file format to another is somewhat related with DRM without thinking about why and how. I mean, if transcoding doesn't add any DRM itself, how the hell does the guy thinks that it has anything to do with the DRM. There is absolutely no thought process going on there. Speed Bump story is very nice and smart, but understanding it requires more brain power than understanding that transcoding has nothing to do with DRM. I totally agree, but I don’t think many people who read Gizmodo and believe DRM is bad is smart enough to understand that. Because the question about transcoding was very stupid. The Gizmodo guy thinks converting from one file format to another is somewhat related with DRM without thinking about why and how. I mean, if transcoding doesn’t add any DRM itself, how the hell does the guy thinks that it has anything to do with the DRM. There is absolutely no thought process going on there. Speed Bump story is very nice and smart, but understanding it requires more brain power than understanding that transcoding has nothing to do with DRM.

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