DRM alive and kicking
9 May 2008 | 08:24 BST
MAFIAA wants to bring it back from the dead
DESPITE BEING HATED, causing its members legal woes, and not actually working, the Recording Industry Association of America wants to bring back DRM.
David Hughes, who heads up the RIAA's technology unit, said that while lots of recording companies were trying to distance themselves from DRM he thinks it will make a comeback.
According to Cnet he made a list of the 22 ways to sell music, and 20 of them still required DRM so therefore "DRM was not dead."
Hughes thought there was going to be a shift in music distribution towards subscription services, which means that DRM has to be used. He added that while the music was playing, punters did not care about DRM.
It was when it stopped them from doing something that they started to get miffed. µ
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