DRM is certainly being thought about in several different areas of the music industry and sales. Businesses are rethinking their approach to securing music from the hands of pirates. Just recently, Reuters reported that the current theory is that if the music industry wants to work to loosen the grip Apple has on digital music sales (iTunes), then it will have to allow music to be sold without digital rights management protection.
Is this the answer to our call for changes with DRM? I think they are finally seeing the light. The industry realizes that people want music and will use any means necessary to gain rights back.
Unprotected MP3-encoded files have always been an option but more recently that option is being taken away. Many Apple competitors would love to sell music in this format now so that they have a fighting chance in the market. The iPod has become such a huge seller and this would be the only way to increase sales to those customers.
Unfortunately the major record labels still insist on DRM for the music sold. No DRM, no license for distribution has been the practice. Increasingly the idea of this is coming under close watch and minds are being swayed.
Many feel DRM is beneficial only to the software companies that produce the security, not the music industry. If this is the case, things will cool off soon and DRM will be a thing of the past. I certainly hope this wake up call works.
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I hope so too.
Hope you are right but as hard headed as the music industry has been in the past…it would almost take a FORCED change of attitude for them to wake up. But mabye p2p has “shown them the light”??
P2P is a meme. Given enough time everyone will be infected
Good point Jau. I think it is definitely a “time” issue.
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i find it funny that although they KNOW someone will find a way to decode the security objects on those releases they still try to stop it. its kinda like telling a 5 year old that he cannot have any candy and then leaving a jarful in front of him unattended. (maybe a little more complicated)
i cant help but wonder what they will try next.