One swallow doesn't make a summer but this would seem to be an indication that even the record companies are coming to doubt the efficacy of DRM.
Labels: Computer security
Monday, January 08, 2007
DRM drummed out?
&bull posted by Matt Wharton @ 5:03 PM
Following on from Eliot Van Buskirk's Wired column Who's Killing MP3 and iTunes? (in which he pontificated on the future of the MP3 file format in comparison to DRMed alternatives like Apple's AAC format as sold in their iTunes online store) there is the news that EMI has announced that it will no longer produce CDs with DRM.
One swallow doesn't make a summer but this would seem to be an indication that even the record companies are coming to doubt the efficacy of DRM.
One swallow doesn't make a summer but this would seem to be an indication that even the record companies are coming to doubt the efficacy of DRM.
