RIAA: DRM is Dead

[exfileme]

Johnathan Larry, the chief spokesman for the RIAA, declared that DRM is now dead.

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[dingumf]

VICTORY!!!!!!

 

[scook9]

Love the typo that calls him LaMy not LaRRy - more obvious in uppercase

So when are PC game developers gonna see the same light? They can't even try to argue they need DRM more than the media industry.

 

[jacobdrj]

Victory will happen when fair use is restored. DRM is just the 1st step.

 

[Guest]

yay!

 

[Shnur]

Finally! I guess when a person that downloads the music for free has actually more rights than the person that buys it, there's a problem.

 

[macer1]

waits for all the free loaders to complain about

 

[macer1]

[citation][nom]Shnur[/nom]Finally! I guess when a person that downloads the music for free has actually more rights than the person that buys it, there's a problem.[/citation]


+1

 

[lifelesspoet]

Its a TRAP!

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]lifelesspoet[/nom]Its a TRAP![/citation]
Thank you Admiral.

 

[Parrdacc]

[citation][nom]lifelesspoet[/nom]Its a TRAP![/citation]

Oh you bet it is!

 

[dman3k]

watermarking/embedding user information is alive and well...

 

[dfusco]

Don't trust them!!!

 

[dingumf]

[citation][nom]Shnur[/nom]Finally! I guess when a person that downloads the music for free has actually more rights than the person that buys it, there's a problem.[/citation]

Actually they have the same rights

 

[Hupiscratch]

[citation][nom]lifelesspoet[/nom]Its a TRAP![/citation]

Peppy: Use bombs wisely!

 

[deltatux]

After iTunes DRM-free'd their music, I started to buying from them ... back then I would buy the disc and rip it. I never understood how spending the same amount on iTunes gave me restricted music when I can just buy a disc for the same and rip the same music with unlimited freedom... and there really isn't much a difference since I was going to rip it to AAC anyways (my format choice, MP3 to me is obsolete technology imo)

DRM never made sense and finally RIAA realized the stupidity of DRM. At least better late than never...

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]deltatux[/nom]After iTunes DRM-free'd their music, I started to buying from them ... back then I would buy the disc and rip it. I never understood how spending the same amount on iTunes gave me restricted music when I can just buy a disc for the same and rip the same music with unlimited freedom... and there really isn't much a difference since I was going to rip it to AAC anyways (my format choice, MP3 to me is obsolete technology imo)DRM never made sense and finally RIAA realized the stupidity of DRM. At least better late than never...[/citation]
Don't mistake the inability to force DRM on major companies like Apple and Amazon with the idea that the RIAA had some sort of groundbreaking epiphany...

 

[Wayoffbase]

People just feel better about buying something they feel they have control over, duh.

 

[waffle911]

"DRM is dead, isn’t it?" Lamy said.

Yes. Yes it is, Larry.

He's dead, Jim.

 

[feenyxfire]

Finally, the Mafiaa will go bother someone else now.

When companies finally stop wasting money on DRM and actually put out products people are willing to BUY, then maybe the companies will make money. DRM only stopped stupid 'pirates', of which there were very few anyways. An 8-year-old can figure out how to download a key-gen, a slightly more clever one can figure out how to log into a 'pirate' server for the phone-home DRM... Watermarked metadata will only last as long as it isn't a problem: as soon as it is, someone will come out with a file hack that strips it out. I'm not worried.