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DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
The digital music landscape is evolving continuously. Just two years ago RIAA chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol defended the use of DRM on digital music because customers would benefit from it. “DRM serves all sorts of pro-consumer purposes,” he said at the time, without going into detail about the alleged benefits.
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Does anyone besides me remember the show Coupling ? The British sitcom was actually an R-rated rip-off of Friends , and after its success in the UK market, an American version of the show was released—so Coupling US was an American version of a UK rip-off of an American show. This sort of trans-Atlantic re-recycling of something that probably should never have seen the light of day isn’t just confined to TV—the US and UK are also at it with a Big Database in the Sky program.
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