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Buy Open [boingboing.net]

Cory Doctorow has a great response to Robert Scoble on Microsoft vs. Apple music players. Cory says buy open! Of course this is the answer. Copyright law does not allow the manufacturer of the medium to specify which brand of player you must use. Even if you use WMA format files with restrictive DRM you aren't getting real choice. You can still only use Microsoft approved devices, in Microsoft approved ways.

Consumers do not want innovative ways to control their use of music. They want innovative ways to use the music they have legitimately paid for. Once I pay for some music I should be able to play it on any device I might happen to be using at the time. If I need to convert to another format, tape, CDR, whatever, I should be able to listen to the music I purchased.

I am glad someone wrote this. I read Scobles article and felt intuitively that there had to be another option. The real choice is clear. Buy Open.

01:39 PM, 27 Jan 2004 by dave bauer Permalink | Comments (0)
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