http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/08/11/when-content-restriction-and-protection-goes-bad/ Radio, broadcasting, websites, and beer. Possibly. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:17:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/08/11/when-content-restriction-and-protection-goes-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-14320 Martin Deutsch Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:18:23 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/08/11/when-content-restriction-and-protection-goes-bad/#comment-14320 The first thing that sprang to mind here was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX" rel="nofollow">DIVX</a>: not the video codec, but the DRM'ed DVD-like format which existed briefly in America. As far as I can tell from that Wikipedia article, 'bought' discs did continue to work for a while, but I suspect they stopped working some two years after the scheme closed. Not great either, but still a bit better than Google's rather short-notice announcement. The first thing that sprang to mind here was DIVX: not the video codec, but the DRM’ed DVD-like format which existed briefly in America. As far as I can tell from that Wikipedia article, ‘bought’ discs did continue to work for a while, but I suspect they stopped working some two years after the scheme closed.
Not great either, but still a bit better than Google’s rather short-notice announcement.

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