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Sony to abandon DRM – report
Music to customers’ ears, perhaps
Friday, 4 January 2008, 10:28
GIANT MUSIC conglom Sony BMG is getting ready to abandon copyright protection software, according to a report in Business Week.
The magazine said that Sony BMG will make at least part of its catalogue available without DRM (dreaded rights management).
That means it is playing follow-my-leader to the other major music labels.
It also represents a u-turn for the firm that made itself the target of ire by dropping code onto peoples' PCs from its CDs without them being aware of it.
And so it goes. µ
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Don't trust Sony, and remember to read between the lines... so they'll drop DRM on music from garage bands that nobody's ever heard of, but they'll still keep trying it on other music, and on _video_ too. Beware Sony's business partners, too.
At first I misread the title as "Sorry to abandon DRM." lol
I think if they could make the DRM allow format conversion, with the DRM following the files, they'd be a lot better off. Plus, give people the option of paying for their stuff by allowing commercial breaks. In other words, make it exactly like tv, except infinitely malleable.

If they did that, only dishonest people would be pirates, as opposed to people who are just p**(*(% about degraded rights.
Vista is like a DRM trashed version of XP - it desperately needs to get rid of the DRM code which brings a simple file copy to a near halt. 

DRM is utter garbage at all levels - they need to simply make the content available at silly low prices, so it becomes a no brainer to purchase the stuff legally...

And until they do, every person should work around DRM...
"Plus, give people the option of paying for their stuff by allowing commercial breaks. In other words, make it exactly like tv, except infinitely malleable. "

I'd prefer to avoid that. Reason: Have you checked any video stream from any high level provider? (MSN for example) You watch a 15-30 second commercial every time you watch a video clip. If the past is any indications on how greedy the music companies are....then you could expect a 30 second commercial for every minute of song play.

I'd be ridiculous.
Yeah I can see it now...

"This song is brought to you by [blank] with limited interuptions.....[ad plays]"

"We interupt this riff to bring you....[as plays]"

"[middle of stanza, singer cuts out] [Ad plays]"

"[song fades to advert]"

Umm.... I'll pass

Every 30 second news clip on Yahoo forces a 30 second ad down your throat.

Leave my music ad free