The music industry on DRM
The BBC have put a selection of questions on the subject of digital rights management (DRM) and file sharing to a panel of “top executives” in the music industry. The full set of questions and responses can be found on the BBC website. A selection of the best/worst responses can be found on The Rock Show site.
Pick of the bunch for me is from Peter Jamieson of the BPI on DRM:
DRM is the technology which makes all kinds of exciting new ways of listening to music possible.
Sigh…the management side of the music industry haven’t had an exciting idea for 40 years, the idea of them becoming gate-keepers for ideas in the future is repellent. The solution to the problem is to boycott DRM encumbered music until they see the error of their ways. Good starting points for this are here and here.
June 20th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
[...] Good to see that another DRM heavy music site is forced to close. Voxpolis has made its position on DRM quite clear. As Jonny said here, we need to boycott DRM music sites. Perhaps then more will follow in mycokemusic’s lead. [...]