Comments on: Apple and DRM http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2005/08/01/apple-and-drm/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:06:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Josh http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2005/08/01/apple-and-drm/#comment-4520 Josh Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:02:17 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/?p=800#comment-4520 Whoops, didn't mean to say I posted _here_. Apparently HTML is stripped from comments... What I meant to say was that I posted about it here: blogs.macnn.com. Whoops, didn’t mean to say I posted _here_. Apparently HTML is stripped from comments… What I meant to say was that I posted about it here: blogs.macnn.com.

]]> By: Josh http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2005/08/01/apple-and-drm/#comment-4515 Josh Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:08:16 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/?p=800#comment-4515 Yes, that's exactly what I've been saying (in fact I just posted about it here). DRM is nothing new on Macs and there's no reason to assume that this DRM will be used for anything more sinister than previous Apple DRM schemes were. From what I know the DRM is indeed only invoked when running Rosetta, but currently Rosetta is needed for running the GUI so basically it restricts the OS entirely to Apple's dev boxes. Last I heard someone had managed to get a partially functional GUI running on other hardware (a blue screen with a cursor) but still nothing usable. Yes, that’s exactly what I’ve been saying (in fact I just posted about it here). DRM is nothing new on Macs and there’s no reason to assume that this DRM will be used for anything more sinister than previous Apple DRM schemes were.

From what I know the DRM is indeed only invoked when running Rosetta, but currently Rosetta is needed for running the GUI so basically it restricts the OS entirely to Apple’s dev boxes. Last I heard someone had managed to get a partially functional GUI running on other hardware (a blue screen with a cursor) but still nothing usable.

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