"ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind suggests that CRAP or Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, is a catchier phrase than DRM - Digital Rights Management. Why does he think this technology is crap? Once you've bought music or other content to play on one device, it won't play on any other device because of the proprietary layer of CRAP."
Great little 3-minute video!
I have yet to buy a portable digital player -- I'm still catching up on ripping my CDs to my computer -- but when I do, I would certainly want it to be free of C.R.A.P.
Yeah, what a dinosaur :-). I'd be more likely to have an iPod or other player if I still lived in Tokyo and rode the train to work every day, but having worked from home in the Vancouver area for the last six years, I've had no pressing need for one.
That said, I admit I have been getting more of an itch to get an iPod -- they're just so darn cute -- but I'd likely limit what I put on it to C.R.A.P.-free MP3s and podcasts.
Posted by Paul at March 27, 2006 11:05 AM