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Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest
An anonymous reader writes "The Japanese Music Industry is currently in talks with Japanese cell phone providers to introduce a new anti-piracy system in all cell phones in Japan. This new system would make DRM software mandatory in all cell phones; this would connect to a DRM server on the Internet whenever the cell phone user would try to play a song. The song would only play if the response of the server would be positive. Otherwise no song would be played. The system raises several questions and concerns that the Financial Times article did not address. These include ripped legally bought music and music that has been released under a CC license or similar. Who would pay for the costs of the DRM checks, and what would happen if no connection could be established?"
If anything the last decade has taught us about the modus operandi of music industries is that they simply dont care and want their dollars.
Not to be needlessly argumentative, but I think part of what the past decade has taught me is that they want their *control*. They'll sacrifice a few dollars if it means that they get to maintain control over what you listen to, how you listen to it, and where you get it. They'll spend tons of money trying to ram a new album down your throat, and then once you buy it they'll spend some more money to keep you from listening to it without buying it again.