You know what, I’m glad you got an iPhone. Although it’s been over-hyped and talked about for months, at least it doesn’t use Microsoft’s shitty PlayReady DRM. Nokia made the stupid move of signing on with Microsoft to use the DRM on its phones using the S40 and S60 interfaces.
Nokia phones tend to be pretty feature-rich, especially in the media department. Introduce DRM and your phones go to crap. This move is bound to hurt Nokia in the end, just wait and see. Why restrict what a user can do on a frickin’ cellphone when you can just let consumers be free. Oh well, maybe Motorola will come out of its slump now.
Nokia to use Microsoft’s PlayReady DRM software [Yahoo! News]
I think that’s a silly conclusion to jump to. You’ll still be able to put whatever music you want on their devices. Choosing to support a particular DRM technology just opens the door to services that require it. It doesn’t limit the phone. If you don’t want to use the service that requires the DRM then don’t. Just continue copying your media to the device as you always did. I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but I don’t see it going away anytime soon, so I just avoid it where I can. Either way I don’t see this as a negative move on Nokia’s part.
Isn’t there already some DRM on Nokia phones? I recall that video clips downloaded from my carrier’s portal can’t be copied and played elsewhere.
noooooooo!!!!!!!