Comments on: Why the iPhone Might Be Able to Swap Music http://www.michikono.com/2007/04/13/why-the-iphone-might-be-able-to-swap-music/ Stuff only Michi cares to read Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michi http://www.michikono.com/2007/04/13/why-the-iphone-might-be-able-to-swap-music/#comment-1735 Michi Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.michiknows.com/2007/04/13/why-the-iphone-might-be-able-to-swap-music/#comment-1735 "an ipod’s hardly beefy enough to re-encode a track on the fly to use a DRM scheme." But... a Zune is? “an ipod’s hardly beefy enough to re-encode a track on the fly to use a DRM scheme.”

But… a Zune is?

]]> By: olli http://www.michikono.com/2007/04/13/why-the-iphone-might-be-able-to-swap-music/#comment-1734 olli Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:46:00 +0000 http://www.michiknows.com/2007/04/13/why-the-iphone-might-be-able-to-swap-music/#comment-1734 there's no way they'll allow free sharing of non-drm tracks, they'd have to enforce some sort of DRM sharing policy in the same way the zune does (3 days / 5 plays or something) because otherwise it would cost them more in the first place. i'm not sure how wifi sharing of non-drm songs would happen in the actual device, an ipod's hardly beefy enough to re-encode a track on the fly to use a DRM scheme. there’s no way they’ll allow free sharing of non-drm tracks, they’d have to enforce some sort of DRM sharing policy in the same way the zune does (3 days / 5 plays or something) because otherwise it would cost them more in the first place.

i’m not sure how wifi sharing of non-drm songs would happen in the actual device, an ipod’s hardly beefy enough to re-encode a track on the fly to use a DRM scheme.

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