The truth about DRM - this time by Yahoo!
You just got to love Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg for speaking out his mind at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles, despite unfavorable reactions from the music industry tycoons.
Rights management restrictions have created a barrier for consumers, he said, making it a hurdle to transfer music to portable devices, and creating incompatibility between music services and MP3 players.
We agree and we think it is time for other executives at large digital music services to stand up for what they believe in and help the record labels understand it is in the best interest of everyone to discard DRM. To date there is only one company that is winning thanks to DRM and this is Apple. Why on earth would the record labels insist on doing something that perpetuates Apple's monopoly and does nothing for them? Maybe because the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Sony have brainwashed them about DRM pitching it as the only solution for piracy, while in fact we know it is a load of crap.
It is refreshing to see someone like Yahoo taking a stand in this matter and although the company officials were somewhat apologetic afterwards we still want to congratulate them for this bold move. It just makes you wonder where is the "do no evil" company in this debate... Oh yes they just announced a new DRM scheme in CES, speaking of evil doing...
Rights management restrictions have created a barrier for consumers, he said, making it a hurdle to transfer music to portable devices, and creating incompatibility between music services and MP3 players.
We agree and we think it is time for other executives at large digital music services to stand up for what they believe in and help the record labels understand it is in the best interest of everyone to discard DRM. To date there is only one company that is winning thanks to DRM and this is Apple. Why on earth would the record labels insist on doing something that perpetuates Apple's monopoly and does nothing for them? Maybe because the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Sony have brainwashed them about DRM pitching it as the only solution for piracy, while in fact we know it is a load of crap.
It is refreshing to see someone like Yahoo taking a stand in this matter and although the company officials were somewhat apologetic afterwards we still want to congratulate them for this bold move. It just makes you wonder where is the "do no evil" company in this debate... Oh yes they just announced a new DRM scheme in CES, speaking of evil doing...
