Comments on: Ding, Dong, The Music DRM Witch Is Dead

By: Spore Spawns Discontent | Intrepid.com.au

Spore Spawns Discontent | Intrepid.com.au — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:40:59 +0000

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By: Blastr.tv » Blog Archive » Blastr EPISODE 21 - Has Blu-Ray Won the Format Wars?

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:09:01 +0000

[...] the war been won? Does Your Gift Suck? Let users rate how bad it is and get it bought for $10 000 Sony BMG finally goes DRM free! Ding Dong the witch of DRM is dead! Chyrp: like [BlogEffects] but they got there first. Om Malik has heart attack; is recovering [...]

By: Gerd Leonhard

Gerd Leonhard — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:58:29 +0000

On the juicy subject of DRM, I have just published a short video with a bottom-line explanation of why the record labels’ quest for control is (was?) utterly ridiculous; and why we will very likely see some quick impeachments of the key players this year – the proponents of DRM will eat it in 2008, imho.

http://www.yout...h?v=OClWvLFMUfs

Gerd Leonhard, Media Futurist

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:15:55 +0000

@ xenbet: yeah if you have no brain and want to be told by clear
channel what music to listen instead of looking for it yourself.

loser.

By: mari

mari — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:52:34 +0000

HURRAH!!!

By: GuiM.fr

GuiM.fr — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:36:58 +0000

RIP DRM…

Voici qui sonne le glas du DRM… Sony BMG, the company that championed DRM music through rootkits is about to drop DRM, according to a report by Businessweek. A lire sur Ding, Dong, The Music DRM Witch Is Dead Technorati…

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:04:37 +0000

Yes, we do have nice broadband connections in Europe (if we forget about upstream for a while) and especially in Sweden where I reside. But we’re still greeted with “Please note that Amazon MP3 is currently only available to US customers.” if we try to get ours from Amazon.com. The final nail? Not quite yet…

By: Daily Links 01/05/2008 « Umbrella

Daily Links 01/05/2008 « Umbrella — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:40:55 +0000

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By: Thoughts from Stephanie Sexton » Blog Archive » cool lyrics - lame terms of use

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:02:49 +0000

[...] I found a way to get lyrics with yahoo launch, very cool, because there are a few really hot songs that I have been turned onto by using the yahoo launchcast, both in browser and as a plug in with the messenger service. And I really am enjoying the lyrics look up I found today. But I can’t easily copy and past the lyrics to show them off and there for turn you onto the songs that I am enjoying today. I did find a way to print screen and save them to post hem, but I decided to click on the terms that yahoo has, and I guess gracenote is forcing them to post, and I wonder if using print screen to save and post the song lyrics would violate the terms as circumventing their DRM – isn’t DRM dead YET? [...]

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:15:41 +0000

I used to work for Hoodiny Entertainment Group and I kept on advocating DRM free music with server side streaming protection. Not exactly the same thing, but I did say that not only DRM was brain dead, but was dead on start. However, since I was working at such an organization and claiming the DRM was dead was unpopular, I would not voice it…. DRM gone … good riddance.

By: david hyman

david hyman — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:22:49 +0000

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

By: xenbet

xenbet — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:23:24 +0000

it suprises me people still purchase music.

stick with the radio .

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http://www.xenbet.com

By: BlueVerse

BlueVerse — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:09:33 +0000

The Music DRM Phase Dies Out – Finally……

For a year now I’ve been following the whole Music DRM thing , I hate it simply hate it, its like they talk big and they never follow through with what they plan to do when I saw the post on Techcrunch i was so happy it wasn’t even real, ha…

By: Stanley Miller

Stanley Miller — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:33:15 +0000

“that DRM would face an inevitable death”

Of course it was. It was always part of the industry marketing plan. What’s funny is you think you had a victory when you’ve actually been fooled – again.

Marketers are masters at squeezing profit and manipulating emotion. They’ve been making profits, and now you feel good. You feel like you won. And now they’ll be make’n more profit as music consumers repurchase the same music this time without DRM.

By: R

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:31:11 +0000

In a lot of ways it makes sense for music to be free, but I don’t know that you can make the same argument for movies. With music the recorded music can be secondary to the experience of a live show, but with movies the movie itself is the experience.

There is little merchandising opportunity with movies. It seems unlikely that the movie with a $200 million budget could stuff in enough product placement and run enough pre-roll commercials to pay for itself. IF the theatre business continues to struggle and people were able to get copies of movies to watch at home for free, the movie business as it functions now probably wouldn’t be viable.

The music industry has collapsed because the demo that buys CDs is 12-24 and that’s the demo that has grown up with broadband and rampant piracy. The movie business hasn’t been hit quite so hard yet because faster broadband has only just started to become available and the demo that buys DVDs is older.

But that’s about to end…

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Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:03:48 +0000

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By: Harald Felgner

Harald Felgner — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:52:35 +0000

The chronology:

*February 6, 2007: Steve Jobs writes his Thoughts on Music letter.

*April 2007: EMI offers to sell higher-quality, DRM-free tracks for a premium.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:50:40 +0000

@ Chuck

You right about that in some ways. I hope the music industry doesn’t end up like the Television industry now.

I’ll continue to use the Zune subscription service though, because I need my fix of 30-40 new albums per month and I don’t have cash to buy all of those albums.

By: Technicle

Technicle — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:41:30 +0000

Very true, in that U.S. need to ramp up the broadband offerings.. in Hong Kong for example, broadband (to home) offerings of 100Mbps are already quite common.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:38:43 +0000

We ALL celebrate the death of DRM. Notice, however, that pirates steal no less in response, and Michael is still trumpeting the lame theory that all music will soon “be free”.

We should absolutely have the right to use purchased music however we want for our INDIVIDUAL listening purposes, no matter the format. That’s what we paid for. We should have access to high-quality copies for digital download.

However, the fact that piracy exists, and that some may prefer it so…is no justification for robbing artists of the right to charge for sale of their creations. You can argue all you want for the creation of “a new business model”…but who are you to make such demands? And what do non-live-performing artists do? What about artists who don’t create and perform in genres where swag is EVER sold?

The simple fact is…you get what you pay for. Or you steal it. Yes, the labels have been stupid. And I don’t care if they curl up and die for all the good they are doing anyone anymore. But, the excuses for pirates to steal are slowly boiling down to just one…because they CAN…a morally indefensible and reprehensible position.

The responsible position is to pay for what you value, and live without that which you do not.

DRM sucked. I’m glad it’s gone. Now, it would be nice if everyone would grow up and start acting like adults.

By: Marc Evans

Marc Evans — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:37:11 +0000

The headline should read:

Ding Dong the DRM witch is dead…. for now.

Once the big 5 and Amazon take market shares away from Apple, come up with an ipod killer, and dominate the market, DRM will be back, but with a revised misnomer.

The movie studio will not likely remove their DRM, since Apple doesn’t dominate this market yet. Thus they aren’t threatened by any major competitors in their digital monopoly. However, if broadband in America gets to the speed found in Europe and Asia, and college kids can download a dvd movie in 10 minutes, it will be a huge technological disruption to the movie studio’s business models.

case study: the proliferation of mp3s prior and post broadband.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:23:17 +0000

This is great news for the FrostWire community which will now be able to purchase pretty much any main stream song they set out to find, via the FrostWire BUY button.

http://www.fros....com/blog/?p=46

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:18:27 +0000

Andrew
presuming I finally get a press pass (working on it) I’ll be there to report on that.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:17:37 +0000

Although unconfirmed, it’s expected that Apple and Fox will announce at the Macworld conference a deal where Fox DVDs will contain versions playable on the AppleTV, iPod and in QuickTime. While not DRM-free, it’s certain a step in the right direction. Because as of now, ripping a DVD to MP4 is illegal under the DMCA.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:13:22 +0000

Apple has been offering DRM-free tracks since May.

http://www.appl...4/02itunes.html

- Mike / http://www.HackingNetflix.com