Gizmodo Declares that DRM Is Dead as Sony Falls
By Jane • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •
Sony, the last major record label still encoding its songs with some type of DRM, has announced that it is finalizing plans to sell its music without DRM. That means you won’t have to authorize any device and that any song you buy can be played on any players you own.
Basically, it means that record companies aren’t going to treat legitimate customers like criminals. Why can’t publishers do the same?
Via Gizmodo.
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Record companies may be giving up on DRM, but it sounds like RIAA is expanding the fight to purchased CDs which are then copied onto the buyer’s computer. Article here.
JMC - I saw that - not the article itself but references to the article. Both ArsTechnica and Gizmodo had it a few weeks ago. But I think there was a clarification on the Gizmodo site that RIAA said that ripping your own CDS was like immoral but not unlawful. (something like that).
As an aside, I was reading Giz last night and their coverage of CES and some of the Giz guys were given press passes and some were given a blogger pass. I can see how frustrating it would be for Giz guys to be differentiated because Giz, Endgadget, ArsTechnica and other sites have these news pieces weeks before the mainstream press picks it up.