From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Rich"  wrote:
>
>   The apple product is not what I was describing as proprietary.  The
>apple protocol is to what I was referring.

So was I (I've left it quoted below). My perception of the difference
between Apple's DRM and Microsoft's DRM is that the Apple DRM allows
anything not explicitly prohibited, where the Microsoft DRM prohibits
anything not explicitly allowed.

>>Calling the Apple solution proprietary and closed standards may have some
>>validity, but it applies equally to Windows XP MCE. Again, like Mike, I
>>feel Apple is ahead in that their interoperability is better with regards
>>to streaming media to other playback devices while still retaining DRM.

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