boingboing.net — "Microsoft says that it's dropping DRM from some of the catalog in the Zune store. This is the other shoe-drop we've all been waiting for since Apple announced last week that it would sell the entire EMI catalog (albeit at a 30% higher price) without DRM through the iTunes Music Store..."
Apr 7, 2007 View in Crawl 4
cquinndApr 7, 2007
Yeah, because Apple is the first company to sell music online without DRM. The question is, will Zune non-DRM songs be priced higher as well?
daffyduckApr 8, 2007
"No, what he is saying is that the Zune simply places the files into a folder and says to itself, "im just borrowing these, I have to delete them after three days or three plays". Its a 3 play song trial. Its no different from illegal file sharing if they let you keep them indefinitely."But even if what you say is true (about the folders) then how is that not still digital rights management? We are arguing semantics here. One way or another, the shared files are DRM protected, whether it's in the file itself or in the location the file resides. Can you move the song out of the folder and have an unprotected file?
chrisutleyApr 8, 2007
"All that's happening here is that you get a higher price, folks."Horses**t. In time DRM will be completely gone, and prices will go back down. This pricing discrepancy is only temporary. In the event the removal of DRM ultimately causes more piracy, then the industry will fight back with pricing or DRM as they should.
mottersApr 8, 2007
It's rare for me to say anything positive about Microsoft, but this is a step in the right direction.
fuzzedoutmamaApr 8, 2007
F*ck Microsoft and the RIAA. Yaaaarrrr!
stoanhartApr 8, 2007
"GINA = GAIM Is Not AIMgotta love all the acronyms"Then, when the Video/Audio fork is merged back in, they can call it vaGINA...
porkdork91Apr 9, 2007
Who cares what music playing/purchasing software dropped DRM from their music stores first.. any player that drops DRM is the s**t.
thedreaming1Apr 9, 2007
I hope other music stores follow suit and remove their drm It just doesn't work. Before all this DRM stuff even started, people were enjoying DRM free music via cds, lps, casettes, even 8-track.Now in this digital age, the music industry is terrified of removing DRM, but since DRM can be removed from music and video, why do they even bother?
justin6512Apr 10, 2007
isn't the zune music store actually called "the social" or some s**t like that?