DRM is a stupid idea
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My article on music and marketing sparked a little debate about digital rights management (DRM). I am in the opinion that DRM is in general a bad idea. It doesn't work. It's not user friendly. And the only people it serves are the owners of the DRM systems that can lock people into their particular playback devices.
Like Oyvind point out in the comments here it's not the end of the world. It's not global warming or bird flu. But it's annoying and limiting for the development of good distribution platforms and user friendly systems on digital media.
And because there are ...