DRM is like a Speed Bump… on a Highway
Written by Ernesto on October 17, 2006DRM is nothing more than a “speed bump” according to Yahoo Music general manager David Goldberg. Every form of DRM will motivate Pirates to find a workaround, and the honest customers will pay the price.
Goldberg said this at the Digital Music Forum West conference in LA, and added that people who say that digital music [...]
DRM is nothing more than a “speed bump” according to Yahoo Music general manager David Goldberg. Every form of DRM will motivate Pirates to find a workaround, and the honest customers will pay the price.
Goldberg said this at the Digital Music Forum West conference in LA, and added that people who say that digital music can be protected are trying to sell nonsense.
Goldberg is convinced that not the pirates, but the honest customers will be hurt by the mass implementation of DRM. The DRM powered “a la carte download model” is a failure according to Goldberg, it only serves to dissuade consumers from buying music legally and instead keeps unauthorized peer-to-peer services in business. And apparently even the MPAA agrees (a little bit).
Yahoo Music manager Goldberg will try to proof his point by releasing Jesse McCartney’s latest album with and without DRM, for the same price. That should be an easy choice.
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Way to go Goldberg!
I used to download legal music, but I wanted to listen to it in my car. I used freecord (Freeware) to emulate a soundcard and I made a copy of it DRM Free!.
Too bad Goldberg doesnt live in the Netherlands!:D
No DRM’ed music on my machine.
But then, boycotting is less prone to lapse on an income as tight as mine. Still lala.com, rip, share, repeat. Harder to track, better $/song.
I’m starting to agree… Americans are idiots compared to Europeans- and pot isn’t even legal here. Confusing… What do we have against using metric? Sharing all data freely and paying via tax, etc? It’s much easier. It’s much more efficient, and it’s much harder to evade. ethana2@gmail.com
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