DRM (digital rights management) isn't something we've really been chronicling here at ChoralNet, but we do have a lot invested in digital music. We look at it from a distance - - we pay attention when the RIAA makes outrageous moves over copying CD's and we note when a new major player shows up in the digital music market.The battle isn't done, but many are claiming that DRM died yesterday. Sony BMG decided to remove copyright protection from it's digital music:
From BusinessWeek:
In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of music downloaded from the Internet, BusinessWeek.com has learned. Sony BMG, a joint venture of Sony (SNE) and Bertelsmann, will make at least part of its collection available without so-called digital rights management, or DRM, software some time in the first quarter, according to people familiar with the matter.
A short history of the demise of DRM is here on Gizmodo.
It's a good day for the consumer.
3 comments:
It's noteworthy that it's Sony which is making this move, because they were at the forefront of trying to put copy-protection on CDs, making them incompatible with computer CD-ROM drives, and so on.
This DRM stuff is killing me!!!
I do not live in the US anymore so I could care less about the breaking US law and removing DRM for personal use.
DRM no DRM…. I just want to be able to play my media on any platform that I choose. DRM is like going into your local stereo shop and having to purchase a DVD player for each movie studio.
So now I found a great decission - MelodyCan converter (http://www.convert-any-media.com) which helps me to resolve drm-protection problem.
DRM can be used in a positive way especially if publishers are willing to sell content at a reduced cost compared to a non-DRM protected version. Whilst DRM does have a bad press in the music/video sectors it has been gaining popularity for the protection of documents and web content (www.locklizard.com)where passwords are a complete failure. If the music industry were willing to sell protected content at a much lower price then maybe it would not have been such an issue.
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