“[i]Yahoo! Music Store has announced that it?s shutting the doors on its DRM-laden music superstore. Somewhere Freddy Mercury is screaming ‘Another One Bites the Dust?’ at 128 kilobits per second. Despite short-term annoyances to burned customers, the joy to music fans is this era of Digital Rights Management is waning like a bad hangover.
It was only 2005 when we first heard the details of the PlaysForSure DRM scheme used by Yahoo! Music and others. Microsoft’s Media Player 10 DRM (PlaysForSure) was licensed to various music services (including Yahoo! Music) and to nearly any portable music player manufacturer.
The plan’s purpose was to topple iPod and iTunes absolute dominance in online music. In 2005 only 4 percent of music was purchased online, but it was a significant growth from the year before. Up to 70-percent of the total online music market belonged to Apple.[/i]”
[i]”Change is in the air and DRM is quietly disappearing from the digital audio market. To many progressive consumers burned by the fall of PlaysForSure, DRM may have looked like a reality to which we’d all have to reluctantly agree. The market had other ideas.”[/i]
more…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management
Buh-bye DRM.
