Death of DRM?Posted by Jeff on January 11th, 2009
It has taken a while but it seems that the days of Digital Rights Management (DRM) encumbered music may be coming to an end. Apple’s announcement at MacWorld that they are to remove DRM from the music sold on iTunes is good news for consumers and online music sales in general.
After hearing the news I got to thinking about an article and presentation from a few years ago – the links are below and most definitely worth the time to go through:
Tim O’Reilly: Piracy as Progressive Taxation
Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture
These two pieces relay in incredible simplicity why DRM is unnecessary, and the risk associated with the technology to infringe on our fair-use rights. It remains to be seen how the disappearance of DRM on music may influence corporate decisions on DRM for other types of media in the future but both Tim O’Reilly and Lawrence Lessig deserve significant credit for us at least arriving at the beginning of the end of DRM in music.
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January 11th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
It us about time the music industry comes around to this. Sad it had to wait til the traditional big companies were on the brink of death. This will definitely encourage a lot of people to buy more. The industry will actually be able to “compete” with pirates.