Sure , it ’s easy to blithely state that DRM is bothersome and sucks . But the fact is , it really can provide you hold vaporous medium that you paid real money for , like when a vendor come together up shop class or switches to new DRM . Last 100 rounds up five shop that have done just that : Major League Baseball(switched DRM , nuking any video bought pre-2006 ) ; Google ( kill video fund , and any vids you bought ) ; Sony ( ditched ATRAC and shut down Sony Connect ) ; Virgin Digital ( shut store , told client to burn tracks to compact disc and re - import as MP3 ) ; and most late , Microsoft , which is shutteringMSN Musicand its PlaysForSure ( now officially worst DRM name ever ) certification host in August .
While Apple wo n’t be become off FairPlay ’s authentication server anytime soon , I do have this semi - dystopian fantasy of them all simultaneously , ad lib combusting and view billion in de jure purchased music go up in green goddess as it all becomes essentially stabile , save circumventing the tracks ’ DRM , if only so the average consumer finally learns what those three little letters really mean . salutary sentence . [ Last 100viaDave Zatz ]
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