{"id":710,"date":"2004-11-10T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2004-11-10T00:01:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T00:01:04","slug":"stephen_wildstr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Wildstrom: Microsoft to the Rescue???"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nStephen Wildstrom argues<\/a>, incorrectly – that Microsoft will ride to the rescue and “save us” from incompatible music formats (Apple uses a format called Fairplay<\/a>, Microsoft uses a proprietary format called Janus<\/a>, while RealPlayer’s is Helix<\/a> and Sony’s is known as ATRAC<\/a>). All of these formats include DRM (digital restrictions management): software techniques to limit our fair use rights.The very last thing we need is for Microsoft to own the electronic music distribution format. Who can forget their famous statement vis a vis Netscape “Cut off their air supply<\/a>“. A Microsoft controlled music format means no more MP3’s which are playable on a very wide variety of devices.
\nWildstrom should listen to and understand Larry Lessig’s recent Bloggercon session<\/a>. Microsoft worked with Orrin Hatch (a formerly hostile senator) to push the absurd Induce Act through congress, further eroding our rights (but for, as Lessig says, the right to hire a lawyer). Anyone with a clear understanding of Microsoft’s history with proprietary formats and API’s<\/a> would not support their controlling electronic music distribution. Make no mistake, there’s a real battle going on and presently Apple is winning (the iPod still plays MP3’s….)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Wildstrom argues, incorrectly – that Microsoft will ride to the rescue and “save us” from incompatible music formats (Apple uses a format called Fairplay, Microsoft uses a proprietary format called Janus, while RealPlayer’s is Helix and Sony’s is known as ATRAC). All of these formats include DRM (digital restrictions management): software techniques to limit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}