Comments on: Word for word, here’s what the RIAA man says he said about DRM in music http://www.teleread.com/drm/word-for-word-heres-what-the-riaa-man-says-he-said-about-drm-in-music/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Durrant http://www.teleread.com/drm/word-for-word-heres-what-the-riaa-man-says-he-said-about-drm-in-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1107857 Paul Durrant Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:14:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/20/word-for-word-heres-what-the-riaa-man-says-he-said-about-drm-in-music/#comment-1107857 Using quotation marks for something that's not an exact quote is very poor journalism. All Jonathan Lamy seems to be saying is that as DRM isn't used on music downloads anymore, the RIAA isn't the appropriate body to ask about DRM cracks. Let's hope the film and book industries come to the same conclusion that the music industry has -- DRM doesn't hurt copyright infringers, and only hurts paying customers. DRM adds costs and reduces sales. Why would anyone want to use it? (Except to lock in customers or to try to get customers to buy content more than once.) Using quotation marks for something that’s not an exact quote is very poor journalism.

All Jonathan Lamy seems to be saying is that as DRM isn’t used on music downloads anymore, the RIAA isn’t the appropriate body to ask about DRM cracks.

Let’s hope the film and book industries come to the same conclusion that the music industry has — DRM doesn’t hurt copyright infringers, and only hurts paying customers.

DRM adds costs and reduces sales. Why would anyone want to use it? (Except to lock in customers or to try to get customers to buy content more than once.)

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