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Originally posted by Cleo@Jan 20 2005, 05:42 PM
DRM works on Macs.
AEBN has vids that play just fine on a Mac and have DRM.
Music sold at the iTunes store has DRM and they work on both Mac and Windows.
WMV files with DRM don't work because Micro$oft hasn't included this ability in their WMP for the Mac.
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Ofcourse you can encode for both real and windows media, but it has to make economic sense, and for most paysites it doesn´t.... 1.5% out of $1M income is $15K - thats $985K from drm wmv efforts, and $15K from drm real efforts - then take into consideration the extra cost of maintaining 2 systems, and I´m sure that there will be close to zero profit on the drm real efforts. Depending on your content, business model etc., then I would say that the "average" paysite out there will have to do several millions income before its something to loose sleep over - and how many paysites are pulling in millions?
Also DRM wmv will be spreading beyond the PC in this and the years to come, so I´m guessing that more and more of that 1.5% will be able to watch DRM wmv in the future.