[ydl-gen] cheapest, best display for PS3

[Jonathan Bartlett]

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>The thing about all this DRM and anti piracy shit is that it never
>stops the actual pirates, and hardly even slows them down.  All it ever
>does is get in the way of legitimate users.  Like stopping me from
>using a PS3 as an ordinary computer on ordinary computer displays.
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What's really interesting is that even Apple, who benefits as much as 
anyone from DRM, is pushing against it:

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where 
every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable 
formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any 
store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. 
This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would 
embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license 
Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a 
DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. 
Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others 
distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The 
simplest answer is because DRMs haven't worked, and may never work, to 
halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all 
their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music 
companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain 
completely unprotected music. That's right! No DRM system was ever 
developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily 
uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any 
computer or player.

In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by 
online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely 
DRM-free  and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves. The 
music companies sell the vast majority of their music DRM-free, and show 
no signs of changing this behavior, since the overwhelming majority of 
their revenues depend on selling CDs which must play in CD players that 
support no DRM system.

So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music 
DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small 
percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to 
be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to 
create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of 
participants selling DRM protected music. If such requirements were 
removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies 
willing to invest in innovative new stores and players. This can only be 
seen as a positive by the music companies.

(from http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ )

Jon
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