Music Industry thinks DRM might not be so good after all
Posted by Ray @ 12:59 amSo proclaims this reuters article and an International Herald Tribune article.
Good news indeed. What was interesting is Warner Music’s blurb from reuters:
“We at Warner have put out a series of premium products and … we immediately doubled the amount of digital albums that we were selling by just attaching a video, attaching some special lyrics or a photo gallery.”
People will buy, if the product has something extra. Granted, it doesn’t make any mention of whether or not one of those “extras” is a DRM scheme. But it’s a start.
In any case, DRM has been going through its own woes for the past month. Apple’s iTunes DRM has been slammed again and again by European countries. And the HD-DVD protection scheme was cracked, with the Blu-Ray scheme following soon after.
(Before you start railing on how this will open the doors to piracy, consider that HD-DVDs on thePirateBay weigh in at 12-20+ GigaBytes. Until compression technology or bandwidth makes that kind of download feasible, the industry has nothing to worry about. See also “Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn’t about piracy” on arstechnica).
All in all, it looks like DRM is going down. I hope! We’ll see how this turns out.
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