Roy Schestowitz wrote:
So why do you buy Defective by Design music? To be honest with you, I never
encountered any form of DRM, not even in eBooks. Encryption is not for access
control, it's for privacy.
It does have one very useful feature and that is it allows subscription
or rental services.
For example, for only $15 a month I can listen to 1,000,000 CDs on
Rhapsody (including on Linux using Web Rhapsody).
And now Netflix, using DRM, allows me to to get 24 hours of online movie
viewing as an adjunct to their DVD deliveries.
DRM is actually a very disruptive technology -- because it threatens the
old school iTunes, sell you a song market, and it challenges the "steal
a song" bittorrent.
It's my kind of technology -- if done right, it lets the consumer win by
buying only the media they need, at a very low price. Much cheaper
than buying every CD, DVD, mp3 that you would ever want and far less
wasteful and redundant.
The real question is why is Linux so far behind on DRM...
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