Remember yesterday when I noted, by way of TorrentFreak, that the RIAA had all but considered DRM to be dead? Not true! Not true at all.
Long story short, and in the interest of protecting sources and so forth, the RIAA rep who supposedly went on record saying “DRM is dead, isn’t it?” didn’t actually say that. The rep, one Jonathan Lamy, had actually alluded to the fact that, yes, the big music download services (like iTunes) no longer have DRM. That doesn’t mean DRM is “dead” or anything—try watching a movie you buy in iTunes on Linux! (Not that the RIAA has anything to do with movies, mind.)
That is all.
DRM may not be dead yet. But the managers who think they need DRM are on their death bed unable to find a place in an industry that is moving away from it’s need for middleman parasites to get product from creators to consumers.
DRM has never been alive, they just think it has.
Now, Digital Rights Annoyance has been alive and well for quite a while. It doesn’t stop a single pirate, but it does make my life, as a legit user, much more difficult.
A big thanks to the Righteous Imbeciles and Assholes Association.
“Righteous Imbeciles and Assholes Association.”
LOL. It never ends with the RIAA does it?