Excuse the morbid headline but ever since Steve Jobs made headlines in February when he came out against DRM, sentiment has snowballed. Bloggers and magazine columnists are predicting the demise of DRM-encoded music in the near future. Read Dan Costa's column in the April 10 issue of PC Magazine for a good summary of the attention being given to the subject.
If DRM does go away in Musicland I have to suspect the already nervous TV and movie studios are having bad dreams. Copy protection of video content is a real source of complaints and problems for consumers - and not because they want to steal the content. People just want to watch TV and movies without the hassle associated with copy protection and proprietary hardware.
I hope the apparent pending demise of DRM for music is an omen of change in digital television.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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