DRM bites the dust
p2pnet.net News:- The members of the Big Four Organized Music cartel have decided to drop DRM.
So says Revolver Records boss Paul Birch, who’s also a board member of Big Four’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Institutes ) and on the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) Council.
“DRM as we know it is over,” he’s quoted as saying in New Music Strategies.
But before you get all excited, the operative phrase is, “as we know it”.
Because as Birch says, there may be a “Son of DRM”. But, “that’s another matter,” he goes on in the story. “Right now its [sic] dead, the majors are moving towards the new model. The one thing you can be sure of is they will still be at the centre of the world music industry whatever happens.”
In other words, DRM isn’t dead. A rose is still a rose under any other name. There’s no way Warner Music (US), EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France) and Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) are about to abandon their attempts at Consumer Control.
“The independents are another matter,” Birch, who runs Revolver Records, declares in the New Music Strategies story. “As our sector’s share has fallen by almost half in just over twelve months, the new model for us is partnership.
“It always was, I’m just not sure we got it.”
Stay tuned for Son of DRM, and meanwhile, go here to see what Birch told p2pnet.
(Thanks, James)
Also See:
New Music Strategies – Major labels to abandon DRM, November 12, 2006
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November 27th, 2006 at 1:49 am
When The major recording companies’s idea of drm and consumer control is rotting in it’s grave being a very sickening to smell rotting corpse covered with maggots then i will believe it.
A very nice worm feast indeed…………………….
LORD OF THE FLIES…………………..
THE GREAT DECEIVER DECEIVES ALL.
November 27th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
The “Son of DRM” will be Vista and TPM based and will make current DRM methods seem almost benign by comparison. Very, very bad.