EMI abandons CD DRM
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| EMI has announced that it will no longer infect its CDs with DRM. I
| remember just a few years ago when an EMI customer-service rep sent
| an email to an irate customer promising that every CD in Europe would
| have DRM within a decade.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/08/emi_abandons_cd_drm.html
Just in case you needed proof that DRM is going nowhere.
While some companies try to embrace it, they fairly soon drop it, as
customers do not come in to shop. It also alienates formerly-loyal customers
(just look at Sony).
Much more proof below, based on recent stories.
Related:
Sony BMG settles suit over CDs
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| Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands
| more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and
| Texas over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program
| on consumers' computers.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8M446200.htm
Amazon Soon Opening DRM-free MP3 Store
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| Looks like rumors are afloat that Amazon is planning on a late
| first quarter 2007 launch of a new music download store. In an
| already crowded music download market, Amazon hopes to differentiate
| itself in two major ways...
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http://www.computers.net/2006/12/amazon_soon_ope.html
Tivoisation explained - implementation and harms
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| To think about what free software licences should do about
| tivoisation, we have to understand what problems we're trying
| to prevent, and how it works - so that we can ensure that
| it doesn't work.
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http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/tivoisation_explained_implementation_and_harms
iTunes sales 'collapsing'
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| The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has
| experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to
| analyst company Forrester Research.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/11/digital_downloads_flatline/
Music to be offered in MP3 file format
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| After years of selling online music digitally wrapped with copy
| and playback restrictions designed to hinder piracy, major music
| labels are beginning to make some songs available in the
| unrestricted MP3 file format.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16179277.htm
Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead - Peter Jenner
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| Few people know the music industry better than Peter Jenner. Pink
| Floyd's first manager, who subsequently managed Syd Barrett's solo
| career, Jenner has also looked after T.Rex, The Clash, Ian Dury,
| Disposable Heroes and Billy Bragg - who he manages today. He's also
| secretary general of the International Music Managers Forum.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/03/peter_jenner/
The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM
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| 1. DRM doesn't prevent illegal use of files, it just makes it a bit
| more difficult to access them.
|
| 2. All it takes is one person to crack the file and it can be made
| available to everyone.
|
| 3. Anyone selling content on CD is already selling unprotected files
| anyway.
|
| 4. DRM adds a lot of costs for content producers
|
| 5. There's a huge hidden cost in trying to sell DRM'ed content
|
| 6. Often the costs of the DRM are passed along to the consumer as well.
|
| 7. DRM-free content will play on your device of today and your device
| of tomorrow
|
| 8. Your media devices of the future will be significantly different than
| your media devices of the present.
|
| 9. DRM fundamentally changes who is control of your media.
|
| 10. Whenever you buy DRM'ed content you support the system of DRM
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http://www.learnoutloud.com/content/blog/archives/2006/11/the_top_10_argu.html
Is DRM good or bad for consumers?
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| In addition, many consumers don't understand DRM restrictions, and
| they're surprised when a CD that works on a home stereo can't be
| played somewhere else, she said. Vendors offer "little disclosure
| about how consumers can use" DRM-protected content, she said.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/08/HNdrmgoodorbad_1.html
The Danger of DRM
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| Sony, having acquired Columbia Records in 1988, was now aligned behind
| music industry interests. It had long sought to replace the open MP3f
| ormat with its own ATRAC audio compression scheme in order to retain
| control over digital music files and limit the potential for music
| file sharing.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/CEE58947-0EE3-44B1-AAEB-28CDCB307ADE.html
Why we are Not Evil !
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| # No DRM: No copy protection (DRM), you can do what you like with
| your music, unlike iTunes and Windows-media based web sites
| # Listen to everything: all our albums can be listened to in their
| entirety before you buy
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http://magnatune.com/info/whynotevil
AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?
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| Note: We're working on testing this ourselves, we'll report back
| with our findings asap.
|
| [Thanks, Max and Adam]
|
| Update: Well, it definitely does something. Click on for some
| pics and our experiences using the app.
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/
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