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Originally Posted by aom3
Barence takes us to PCPro for a look at the failures of DRM and a discussion of its impending death.
Quoting: "Luckily, DRM is dying, at least in the download sphere. Napster's Dan Nash believes that DRM-free is 'the general way things are going.' In his opinion, record companies 'have no choice but to adapt;' those that 'stick to DRM on a pay-per-download basis will not remain competitive.' In the US, Napster has joined Amazon in selling DRM-free content in MP3 format from all the major labels. ... Going DRM-free makes sense not just for consumers, but for the industry. Deutche Telekom says three out of four technical support calls its Musicload service had to deal with were the result of DRM. And when it offered a DRM-free option to artists they saw a 40% increase in sales."
Read on: PC Pro: Blogs & Analysis: Features: The online music rip-off |
This is a very fine article on the faeces of the Devil called DRM
One thing that it doesn't look at is the regional/terrestrial discrimination that the music industry also condones
I want to be able to get the new ... -album the same day as it is released in the US, the UK or Japan. I don't want to wait two months because the record labels want to make sure that the album goes well in the US before releasing it in Scandinavia
The same thing goes for movies by the way
