The Recording Industry’s Off-Key Strategy

Many of the recording industry’s leading digital sales channels, including Yahoo!, Real Networks (which owns Rhapsody) and Apple have now publicly called on the record labels to end their insistence on DRM. Moreover, last week a Jupiter survey of European music executives found that nearly two-thirds believe that dropping DRM would increase digital music sales.

Audio DRM gets more disgusting with each news posting that becomes available. Just a few weeks ago we learned of a possible tax that would be applied to MP3 players, up to $75, depending on their density. Canucks already get charged a hidden tax on their blank media purchases, simply because music piracy could happen. They are even looking to extend this levy into blank flash media! This is a great article that takes a look at how things are, and how things could be.

Source: The Star