DRM alive and kicking
DESPITE BEING HATED, causing its members legal woes, and not actually working, the Recording Industry Association of America wants to bring back DRM.
David Hughes, who heads up the RIAA's technology unit, said that while lots of recording companies were trying to distance themselves from DRM he thinks it will make a comeback.
According to Cnet he made a list of the 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still required DRM so therefore "DRM was not dead."
Hughes thought there was going to be a shift in music distribution towards subscription services, which means that DRM has to be used. He added that while the music was playing, punters did not care about DRM.
It was when it stopped them from doing something that they started to get miffed. µ
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22 ways to sell music, 20 of them still required DRM... and only 2 are actually being used.
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.
"It was when it stopped them from doing something that they started to get miffed"

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