On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:28:33 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:05:56 -0800, Darren New wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:19:30 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Any "copies" are charged at a lower cost, either to the
>>>>> copier, or the one receiving.
>>>> How would one even collect on that, though?
>>> If it's via something like a kindle, you're really transferring
>>> rights, which is to say, issuing new keys from the license server. If
>>> it's not DRMed, you'd have to have it phone home.
>> 
>> Which is hard to do with nonexecutable code (such as audio tracks on a
>> CD).
> 
> The code doesn't have to be executable to be DRMed.  WMA files can carry
> DRM. You just have to have a device that plays back the file and
> eventually gets in touch with some license server.

True....though technically I was commenting on "it phon[ing] home" not 
the player phoning home.  Splitting hairs.

Jim

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