Yahoo! Music kan heller ikke lide DRM
Først solgte Metallica ikke-kopibeskyttede MP3 filer, og nu er det Jessica Simpsons tur. Godt nok er det kun et enkelt nummer, godt nok koster det $1.99. Til gengæld synger Jessica så “A Public Affair” for lige nøjagtig dig og vigtigst af alt … du får nummeret som en god gammeldags MP3 fil.
Nu er jeg ikke så meget til de nymodens pop-sild (og mit fornavn står ikke på listen :)), så jeg tror jeg springer over. Men det varmer om hjertet at det spirerende oprør mod DRM ikke længere er forbeholdt bevidste forbrugere.
Og det stopper ikke her. Yahoo! Music’s Dave Goldberg syntes at DRM generelt er en skidt idé og hans kollega Ian Rogers deler entusiasmen:
Our position is simple: DRM doesn’t add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day - the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform.
We’ve also been saying that DRM has a cost. It’s very expensive for companies like Yahoo! to implement. We’d much rather have our engineers building better personalization, recommendations, playlisting applications, community apps, etc, instead of complex provisioning systems which at the end of the day allow you to burn a CD and take the DRM back off, anyway! And on the consumer end there is certainly some discount built into that $0.99 download for the fact that you can burn a limited number of times, can’t play it on your Squeezebox, can’t DJ it with your DJ software, and can’t make a movie out of it with iMovie? I certainly hope so. Un-DRM’d content is implicitly more valuable to a consumer.
Fine ord, omend der er et lille hul i argumentationen; CD’ere er ikke nødvendigvis DRM-fri. Vi nævner i flæng Coldplays “X&Y”.