Let's talk DRM...

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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.

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.