DRM is Dead “Jonathan Lamy, chief spokesperson for the RIAA declared when he was asked about the RIAA’s view on DRM for an upcoming SCMagazine article,” says Slashdot . “DRM is dead, isn’t it?” Lamy said, referring to the DRM-less iTunes store and other online outfits that now offer music without restrictions.” Since the inception of DRM, it has the primary result of punishing those that have bought digital music, tying them down to either the device, or protocol that was the proprietary platform for the music played. It has done nothing to inhibit the illicit file sharing of music as a whole, and really only had the effect of pissing off the customer.

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