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Oct 9, 2007
Yahoo Music to record execs: No more DRM, ever - Boing Boing
Yahoo! Music's Ian Rogers has told record companies that he and Yahoo! no longer want to inconvenience users with draconian DRM technology.I'm here to tell you today that I for one am no longer going to fall into this trap. If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! put more barriers in front of the users, I'm not interested. Do what you feel you need to do for your business, I'll be polite, say thank you, and decline to sign. I won't let Yahoo! invest any more money in consumer inconvenience.
Everyone was wondering if Jobs and his Killer App, iTunes, would get other tech companies to rethink their strategies of complicity with the RIAA. Most thought maybe so, but how long would it take? Apparently just a few months. And it comes not a moment too soon.
Currently, everyone - from Microsoft to Intel to Yahoo! - who has anything to do with the electronic distribution of recorded media is in thrall to the RIAA and their pathetic attempts to keep the water in the sieve of their decrepit business model.
It seems that technology producers are wising up to the fact that they can no longer simply blame publishers when songs downloaded or copied legally can't be played on any other device than the one to which it was originally downloaded. It was/is the technology that prevents it from working on your computer, mp3, and your CD player. And consumers have had enough.
Fair use is not piracy. And music downloads, legal or otherwise, is not the cause of the sorry state of the U.S. recording industry. It is substandard product designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator and a homogeneous lack of diverse talent.0 Comments | Link to this post posted by Teddy 11:28 AM
