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Did he happen to mention that one of the two DRM-free methods is the CD, on which more music has been sold than on any other format?

posted by : Jerome West, 13 May 2008 Complain about this comment
Um, let me see if I got that right

A big guy in the Mafiaa dreams up a list of 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them contain DRM, so DRM will come back ?
You really gotta stop snorting the white powder, chowderhead.
Only the clueless users accept something with DRM in it, and only until that DRM bites them in the rear (which it will do, inevitably), at which point they wake up and realize that Digital Restriction Management is NOT their friend and they avoid it from that point on.
Entertainment will be user-friendly, with or without the RIAA/MPAA.

posted by : Pascal Monett, 13 May 2008 Complain about this comment
Yeah, Right

Just like Sony tried to do, but had to stop because people stopped buying their product. If I find that there is any DRM on anything I buy, I return it, and make sure every one concerned knows why. If no one buys their crap, they will change their mind pretty darn quick.
I would to see David Hughes out of a job, and the doors locked on the Recording Industry Association of America. They are both as useless as teats on a boar hog.

posted by : gil, 09 May 2008 Complain about this comment
"22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still required DRM"

So thats 2 ways that benefit the music creator and the customer and 20 that dont then.

Business will realise that to make a profit you have to provide a service. Parasitism is NOT a service.

posted by : Tom, 09 May 2008 Complain about this comment
Look very carefully...

Remember, *HE* made the list... He is the head of the Technology unit. It's just standard job preservation. He's hardly going to list 22 things that just use standard mp3 and find himself replace by an open source mp3 encoder is he!

posted by : Steve, 09 February 2008 Complain about this comment
The point of DRM

"It was when it stopped them from doing something that they started to get miffed"

Which is the whole point of DRM, after all...

posted by : stderr, 09 February 2008 Complain about this comment
He forgot one part...

22 ways to sell music, 20 of them still required DRM... and only 2 are actually being used.

posted by : E. Boone, 09 February 2008 Complain about this comment

DRM alive and kicking

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