The chief spokesman for the RIAA, one Jonathan Lamy, has gone on record to say what any normal, not-on-the-RIAA-payroll person has been saying for some time now: “DRM is dead, isn’t it?” Yes. Yes it it.
This phrase—“DRM is dead”—appears in an upcoming SC Magazine article. Mr. Lamy references things like the now DRM-free iTunes which, at least in the U.S., “is” downloadable music.
There’s really not too much to add here: DRM is great at getting in the way of legitimate users; pirates will always find a way around it. And not just music, either. In fact, in my opinion, it’s been the video game industry which has been most egregious with DRM. Games are DRM’d to no end, then legitimate users can’t get the thing to work. Meanwhile, someone like RELOADED will have cracked the game two days before its official release date.
I don’t know, good riddance, DRM.
Game copy protection is rapidly disappearing, and good riddance! All it did (mostly) was interfere with legitimate users.
seriously, even having to have a CD in the system feels very archaic. These days if I can’t download and install from steam/ea directly I don’t buy it.
This is a great day. now all we have left is the next wave of security for our entertainment.
I won’t buy anything from Sony again after they tried to rootkit me. I canceled my Audible.com account and gave up on iTunes ages ago because the DRM was a hassle. I pay for lots of downloaded music provided it has no DRM and a reasonably high bit rate. That only started fairly recently after DRM started to disappear. These paranoid non-technical MBA’s really know how to screw up sales.
And this is news because?? Because the RIAA is always behind the curve when it comes to technology.
I’m pretty sure the “pirates” are no longer concerned with Mp3 when you can d/l lossless audio just as quickly…And that’s not news either.