DRM 'Too Complicated' Says Gates 196
arbirk writes "BBC News is reporting on comments made by Bill Gates concerning DRM.. It seems he has got the point (DRM is bad for consumers), but that opinion differs widely from the approach taken by Microsoft on Zune and their other music related products. The comments were originally posted on Micro Persuasion. The article also has a take on Apple's DRM." From the BBC article: "Microsoft is one of the biggest exponents of DRM, which is used to protect music and video files on lots of different online services, including Napster and the Zune store. Blogger Michael Arrington, of Techcrunch.com, said Bill Gates' short-term advice for people wanting to transfer songs from one system to another was to 'buy a CD and rip it'. Most CDs do not have any copy protection and can be copied to a PC and to an MP3 player easily and, in the United States at least, legally."
No Wonder (Score:1, Funny)
I can see how it must seem that way to him.
From Micro Persuasion:
Q) What did you want to be when you grew up?
A) A lawyer.
That explains a lot. A hell of a lot.
Re:Wow! (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe they just don't sit down together and talk the way they used to...
...and when Steve Ballmer heard... (Score:1, Funny)
...and when Bill Gates heard of Steve's reaction he whispered: "You too, Steve...?"
Unfrozen Caveman (Score:5, Funny)
Chairman: Go ahead, Mr. G-rock.
G-rock: It's just 'G-rock', Mr. Chairman... Ladies and gentlemen of the Congress, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes when I'm playing a song on my Zune, I wonder "Are little demons inside playing the music? " I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there's one thing I do know - when someone builds a computer without paying for a Windows license, that's piracy, and my company is entitled to no less than two hundred dollars in compensatory damages, and eight hundred in punitive damages. Thank you.
Re:Wow! (Score:1, Funny)
Could that be due to a lack of chairs?
Re:Wow! (Score:3, Funny)