Yahoo Exec Speaks Against DRM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 24, 2006 @05:38AM from the pinch-me dept.

AWhiteFlame writes "Dave Goldberg of Yahoo spoke against DRM on media files last Thursday at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles. From the article: 'According to attendees, Goldberg pointed to the experience of eMusic, which offers its subscribers access to MP3 files without any digital rights management attached. Rights management restrictions have created a barrier for consumers, he said, making it a hurdle to transfer music to portable devices, and creating incompatibility between music services and MP3 players ... A Yahoo spokeswoman said that Goldberg was 'basically trying to move the industry forward,' and wanted to prompt industry-wide discussion about what the consumer experience is."

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Goldberg? by XMilkProject · 2006-02-24 06:26 · Score: 2, Funny

This is surprising, given that the media companies do seem to be taking the Goldberg approach to DRM.

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Music name limitation by bk4u · 2006-02-24 06:41 · Score: 2, Funny

Yahoo, however, prohibits the download of songs with the string "allah" in them.

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Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-24 08:41 · Score: 1, Funny

and you, sir, are a language bigot.