[p2p-research] iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!

[Ryan Lanham]

On 2/3/10, Tomas Rawlings <tom at fluffylogic.net> wrote:
>
>
> does anyone have an overview of how drm has fared on the iPod over time?
>> that could be instructive,
>>  Tom?
>>
>>
> The iPod began with DRM - I'd suspect pushed by the major labels before
> they'd agree then as the users began to get annoyed with it, there was a
> slow unwinding of the DRM.  Perhaps the most tacit admission that DRM was
> not adding value was the adding of 30cents per track to remove it:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10132759-37.html - suggesting that DRM
> was lowering the cost of the experience.
>
> So while it has died on music, it is is still very active in many other
> areas of Apple's business.
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090108/1403283335.shtml - again I
> suspect that the companies who they were dealing with demanded some kind of
> DRM before they got involved - which I except to see erode away over time.
>  Thus far with the net what happens in music has then tended to follow into
> other areas of media - film, games etc.
>
>
> --
> Tomas



This is almost exactly the point I was making (or trying to make).  Normal
social processes erode DRM.  It isn't something worth fighting.  If it leads
to innovation, it is a good thing, because evolutionary forces will
undoubtedly erode it over a relatively brief period.

Ryan
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