UK Retailers Join The Anti-DRM Crusade
Posted by James | Filed under Music
Digital Rights Management has long been one of the most hotly-discussed and widely-loathed technologies around, and whilst its grip on mainstream media providers seems set to continue, the wall of DRM is slowly beginning to crumble.
Recently we’ve seen plenty of activity against DRM, and even a change of tune with music executives making overtures about how ‘they were wrong to go to war with consumers’. Whilst it used to be just consumers who were the majority of DRM opponents, their cause has just been strengthened with new that British music retailers have added their voice to the campaign against DRM because they believe that horrendous amounts of copy protection is actually putting people off buying the very media they rely on.
Whilst it’s fair to say that in certain areas, particularly video, there’s plenty of progress yet to be made in changing industry opinion, the continuing demise of DRM is music to my ears!
Tags: british music, consumers, copy protection, digital rights management, drm, mainstream media, music retailers
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