begin oe_protect.scr
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Ray Ingles ] on Friday 21 July 2006 14:12 \__
>
>> On 2006-07-21, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>| Yahoo for the first time is offering a popular song for sale unprotected
>>>| by anti-copying technology.
>>
>> Hope others will take note. It just makes sense.
>
> Might be a matter of satching up. Yahoo can boast having something that will
> appeal to many customers (not just a niche). To re-gain these customers,
> others might need to follow suit. Perhaps DRM will vanish as soon as it
> emerged/penetrated fully.
It was only a matter of time before someone tried it. Personally, I
think this might work like back catalogue used to for record companies;
the really new teenage girl's pop music will be DRMed (they won't care
anyway, because in 6 months they'll've forgotten it, as will everyone
else); but the good music will be sold as MP3s?
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UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
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