Posted by Mike on Feb 7th, 2007
Sure, Digital Rights Management, or, as some others might say, Digital Restrictions Management, is a system created so that music companies and the entertainment industry in general, can prevent consumers from gaining the ability to use content, licensed to them, freely.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has spoken out in opposition to DRM for quite some time, and has a large resource for those interested in their opposition at Defective by Design.
What if someone else came out against DRM. Someone who wields some significant influence over the digital music market?
Well, that’s what Steve Jobs did yesterday in an open letter titled, Thoughts on Music.
It’s a very interesting read.
The RIAA, however, can’t waste their time, and even though Jobs states explicitly that Apple will never license their DRM solution, called FairPlay, they responded by saying his offer to do exactly that would be “a real victory for fans, artists and labels”
Hopefully someone can point out the real argument being made: drop DRM all together as a victory for fans, artists and labels.
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