And here I thought I was the only one. The good people over at Emerging Earth have a post about a UK survey with 1,700 people that says the following:
61% said that DRM “invades the rights of the music consumer to hear their music on different platforms.” 49% called it a “nuisance,” and 39% expressed concerns that DRM could have privacy implications. Despite this, 63% agreed that DRM “is a good idea because it protects copyrighted music from illegal file-sharers.”
The general, and obvious, idea is that the music industry hasn’t found the right way to do DRM. It goes to show that when a format isn’t created and agreed within an industry (i.e. Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD) that industry will suffer. This makes me think that the digital music revolution really caught people with their trousers down.
Although it is a bit unrelated I have to put the quote Emerging Earth uses at the top of the article.
“Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?” — Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG’s president of global digital business.
I could only say things about this quote that would get me fired so I’ll keep quite on this one.
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1 Mike Abundo // Aug 16, 2007 at 1:29 am
If statistics don’t convince execs, maybe street protests will.
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