Yet Another Big Initiative To Re-Educate Us About DRM launched at CES.
- DRM does not work. Regular users are inconvenienced when they cannot move media files to another device. Anyone with Google will download a DRM free copy of your media.
- DRM makes your media look less attractive to people.
- DRM is not more convenient. When did adding restrictions make a better media file type?
- DRM will be broken in a matter of hours or days, especially if you are a massive multinational-multi company conglomerate.
The biggest problem in the 21st century will not be piracy, but obscurity (Cory Doctorow). If people are using computers to copy 1’s and 0’s then you should be happy you have fans. Sell them concert tickets, posters, signed DVD cases… but a 20th century business model has no automatic ticket to be the distribution of choice in the 21st century.
