Tuesday, 10 May 2005

Hoist on her petard?

Hilary Rosen still doesn't get it. Her iPod can play several kinds of open music formats, as can all MP3 players. But she blames it for 's Value destruction.
Remember this, Hilary?:
"Building a legitimate business model from scratch -- one that involves literally hundreds of millions of copyrights and interlocking creative rights, navigating incompatible DRM's and players and building customer service and ease of use that music fans have always enjoyed -- isn't quite as easy as people might think," she said.
Zooko, a software engineer at Mojo Nation, asked Rosen if she truly understood the physical impossibility of effective Digital Copyright Protection.
Rosen nodded. "I get it," she said. "It's going to be very hard."
"Not hard: Impossible!" Zooko and the entire crowd exclaimed.
"I get it! I get it!" she insisted.

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