DRM is Dead.
p2pnet news view | DRM:- DRM is Dead “Jonathan Lamy, chief spokesperson for the RIAA declared when he was asked about the RIAA’s view on DRM for an upcoming SCMagazine article,” says Slashdot.
“DRM is dead, isn’t it?” Lamy said, referring to the DRM-less iTunes store and other online outfits that now offer music without restrictions.”
Since the inception of DRM, it has the primary result of punishing those that have bought digital music, tying them down to either the device, or protocol that was the proprietary platform for the music played.
It has done nothing to inhibit the illicit file sharing of music as a whole, and really only had the effect of pissing off the customer. With the unstated pre-disposition that the customer was a criminal, hell bent on vicariously devastating the Big 4.
After incessant support for an unwanted ‘addition’ to digital music sales, and the many alphabet soup supporting industries, collection agencies and royalty boards touting its immense customer support and acceptance, constantly angling the invasive ‘add-on’ in the customer’s best interests, it seems that they are finally getting the point.
Even the RIAA touted its comeback less than a year ago, it seems the consumers have spoken. Not in the sense that the Big $ engaged the consumer to ask what they wanted, it seems that DRM was seriously hurting sales, and in the end, consumers have spoken with their almighty dollar.
One by one, beginning with iTunes, the retail outlets that offer music as digital sales have been dropping DRM, and then seeing their sales improve.
This is a perfect example of how powerful the internet is, and that determination from the customer will have an effect of corporate parasites.
Keep the Boycott going…
Update..
Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol SWEARS, the RIAA was misquoted. But does point to the undenying fact that removing DRM improves sales.
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Slashdot – RIAA Spokesman Says DRM Is Dead, July 20, 2009
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July 20th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Now if only Microsoft would make it easier to transfer Xbox Live Arcade Games from one console to another considering how often their machines break down. This is why I haven’t purchased anything new from XBLA in the last year or so. Seriously, how hard would it have been to create an automated web page that allows a customer to change which machine a game they paid for is hard coded to? If my second Xbox 360 dies at the end of it’s warranty like my first one did, I’m selling all it’s games and moving back to PC gaming. Maintenance can be a time consuming pain but at least all the games are “free”.
July 20th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
One would think that with XBox Live MS could allow someone to make a transferable copy that would only allow the game to be played on one machine at a time thus making the purchase of a new unit easy on the consumer…
But DRM is dead, as the smell of death grows we will see DRM drop from other media formats one at a time.
The Consumer has spoken “NO DRM”
July 21st, 2009 at 12:22 am
To see the RIAA take it in the ass like that about DRM was really nice to see. I just hope that this “new” thinking from them spreads to video ie Blu-ray and proprietary lockins ie Apple/iTunes, but I suspect that it won’t be tomorrow, but will mostly come, eventually.
I’ve always told my friends that I’m boycotting Blu-ray because of its draconian DRM for example and they seem to be getting the message.
I guess corporate greed worked in our favour in the end: they were touting “compatible DRM”, making a standard DRM across all platforms. That really would have made it difficult for the average guy and a bad day for the consumer. Charlie Demerjian put it really well in his article “DRM is a Complete Lie” back in Jan06. Once again, he was right. Enjoy.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1040628/drm-complete-lie