More on TechnologyTell: Gadget News | Apple News
Word for word, here’s what the RIAA man says he said about DRM in music
July 20, 2009 | 3:51 pm
|
By David Rothman
Jonathan Lamy at RIAA was good enough to send me a prompt email reply about the DRM-is-dead statement attributed to him.
Here’s what he tells me he emailed a tech-mag reporter who asked about DRM’s current uses and its future:
Happy to help…but I’m confused. There is virtually no DRM on music anymore, at least on download services, including iTunes. Nothing to really "crack." It’s all now sold in mp3 form and playable on any device.
This is probably more a question for the studios and networks, who still use DRM for downloads sold on iTunes and other sites.
all the best,
jonathan
It’s great to to see the RIAA PR guy saying that “there is virtually no DRM on music anymore,” but according to him, the “is dead” stuff in TorrentFreak is “not quite what I said.”
The TorrentFreak piece quoted him as saying, “DRM is dead, isn’t it?”
Hair splitting or substantive? You decide. That said, I do think TorrentFreak should have limited itself to the RIAA guy’s exact language when using quote marks.
Technorati Tags: TorrentFreak
|
Previous
SUBSCRIBE TO RSS
Comments:
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.)