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Chronicling the Failures of DRM
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."
It's really spelled Phone Company.
Wow, what a blast from the past.
There's someone who knows something about dying.
This is on topic: this is what DRM is like!
So why cant we pay for DRM-encumbered media with rental money? We should have the same rights as them, to allow them the use of our money for certain very limited purposes.
Of course all those other attempts have failed. It's because they didn't use my super secret (and soon to be patented) method for riskless, full control family friendly DRM 2.0.
Now shut up until I close the deal with these twits, would ya?
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Jawohl my Oberspellführer.
It's spelled Deutsche Telekom, not Deutche.
Wow, an authentic Spelling Nazi!
John
Arghrr, you made me read the parent post.
Well when I was a kid I'd take a trip
every summer down to the Music Strip
to visit the stores in the Post-Napster1.0 World.
I'd run my computer mouse along
the world wide web, after doin' a GREP,
and one day I happened to catch my self a true Song.
Well, I stuffed it down in a 3rd Party pod,
Added a couple ringtones on top,
And when jogging day came I took it for a run.
So I turned down Maple, up Vine, to Arkham,
across the field for the Flea Market parking,
and jogged down Main when that Song went totally beserk.
The DRM-Enabled Device with Hash Tables
tried to run the codec Fable(tm) on this plain ol' MP3.
It went to look for a license that never existed;
The song just started playing while the Server persisted,
trying to lock down a Song that was already free.
The Day the Song went beserk,
On that DRM'ed Musical Clerk,
During my morning run across Main Street.
It was a fight for survival
'Led to an MP3 Revival,
and Indie Bands all shouted Halleleujah!
Well, Eighty Seven DRM servers were cleared,
Five hundred thousand tunes reappeared,
and seven Boards of directors fired the CEO's on the spot.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine