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DRM is Dead, RIAA Says

torrentfreak.com — For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who actually paid for their music. Now, in a shocking turnaround, the outfit seems to have come to the realization that DRM does more harm than good and has officially declared its death.

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  • nmffffd9, on 07/19/2009, -5/+877after all the deaths in the past couple weeks, I think this is the only one I won't be saying RIP to.

    burn in hell DRM.. and ***** you too RIAA.
  • exspasticcomics, on 07/19/2009, -3/+531great! now when will the RIAA die?
  • bmwlover56, on 07/19/2009, -5/+473ITS A TRAP!!
  • JMilton, on 07/19/2009, -3/+374I shall be content when the title says: RIAA is dead.
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  • inactive, on 07/19/2009, -6/+263It's been dead to me for years!
    ***** the RIAA/MPAA/BREIN and others!!!!
  • Bub978, on 07/19/2009, -8/+264Man, these Onion articles always get me.

    ...wait a minute....
  • BREZZZ, on 07/19/2009, -2/+209No *****. DRM isn't very good when the copy everyone is pirating doesn't have it.
  • inactive, on 07/19/2009, -7/+175***** THE RIAA
    ***** DRM
  • pika2000, on 07/19/2009, -5/+165"Fine, DRM is dead, but we're still going to sue everybody and their children, and their pets, and the dead. Oh, by the way, we love the politicians that you have voted for, they're pretty obedient in bed."

    Sign: the RIAA.
  • vsujohn2, on 07/19/2009, -9/+107RIAA: Really Ignorant + Arrogant *****
  • ophello, on 07/19/2009, -4/+94April....fools?
  • Halsfield, on 07/20/2009, -2/+86I bought a foo fighters double cd album (the one with the acoustic 2nd cd, can't remember the name) and I threw it onto my pc to listen to it(I don't have a discman) and this program popped up that I had to download to listen to each song, and they were only playable with that program. Completely ridiculous and I hope this leads to all such cds being done away with.

    It is a step in the right direction but anti-piracy idiocy is far from finished.
  • natpatben, on 07/19/2009, -9/+93That's great.... for whoever purchases products from music stores.
  • rotundo, on 07/20/2009, -2/+70Future business people: please take note that fighting your customers and fighting change is not good business. And it only took the RIAA a decade to figure this out.
  • AdmiralAcbar, on 07/20/2009, -5/+65WTF, Dude!
    That's my Job!
  • Gizza, on 07/20/2009, -2/+60"Net neutrality is a fraud that I bet the RIAA supports, don't let the government control the internet, because then the government will be able to do whatever it wants to the internet."

    And right here we see the biggest problem facing net neutrality. No one knows what it is. What you just described is the opposite of net neutrality. What we want IS net neutrality.
  • alpha88, on 07/19/2009, -0/+58Hey you obviously haven't been on the interweb too long. Let me point you to a website that is invaluable for discovering new things! http://www.google.com
  • inactive, on 07/19/2009, -2/+58For music, yes. Next up: video, audiobooks, and ebooks. DRM is completely backwards.
  • k3rfuffl3, on 07/20/2009, -2/+56It's not some moral conclusion they reached. It just became unprofitable. Too bad they're too ***** stupid to have figured it would be unprofitable from the start.
  • Ne007, on 07/19/2009, -3/+48***** them...they do not have an ounce of integrity in them.

    I believe nothing they say. Everything they do is for greed and I personally will not give them any money ever again.
  • hellbent187, on 07/20/2009, -3/+48I'm sure the RIAA is looking into DRM alternatives. Don't let them fool you.
  • cyclopropene, on 07/20/2009, -2/+46I've never even seen any of this so-called "DRM". Does anybody have a link to a torrent for some?
  • acegi, on 07/19/2009, -2/+43I'm still not amused. The day RIAA dies too is the day I smile.
  • pikpikcarrotmon, on 07/20/2009, -0/+36There are only three kinds of people:

    1. Those who hate the RIAA
    2. Those who work for the RIAA
    3. Those who don't fully understand the RIAA

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say you're probably under #3. #2 would be far too outrageous and obscene an insult.
  • Halsfield, on 07/20/2009, -1/+36Your first problem is not understanding that personal preference is not the same for everyone.

    Your second problem is that you don't understand when a CD can be useful or that most of my complaint about this type of DRM was that I couldn't take the mp3s from the cd and put them onto an mp3 player for playback places other than my pc.
  • SilverBlade2k, on 07/19/2009, -2/+36Has hell frozen over?...
  • GregR, on 07/20/2009, -1/+32The RIAA - late to the party as per usual.
  • FrameWraith, on 07/20/2009, -0/+30Even better:

    http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+drm%3F
  • Inceptious, on 07/19/2009, -4/+30Never thought I'd see the day when I thought the RIAA realised something so true to all of us.
  • NorthMass, on 07/20/2009, -27/+53The RIAA is simply going to lobby to instead try to have the government literally control the internet. That is much worse IMO.

    Net neutrality is a fraud that I bet the RIAA supports, don't let the government control the internet, because then the government will be able to do whatever it wants to the internet.
  • NorthMass, on 07/20/2009, -6/+32It is a trap. The RIAA is simply supporting this now because they want good PR while they use their government buddies like Joe Biden to push through government regulation of the internet.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+24I think they're next logical step is to form some kind of Nazi-ish regime that will physically stand there with the protected content and shoot you in the face should you try to make a copy.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+24This is only about music. DRM for games is far from dead.
  • prisoner24601, on 07/20/2009, -1/+25After watching Kindle's 1984 debacle this week, it's clear:

    DRM is double-plus fail.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+23Return the CD for a refund, then get the music by other means. You should not have to jump through these musical hoops to enjoy what you BOUGHT.
  • anthropodeus, on 07/20/2009, -1/+23***** THE MPAA
  • pika2000, on 07/20/2009, -0/+21I'm not justifying piracy. I merely pointed out the RIAA's silly lawsuits, and the fact that they are deeply in bed with the politicians to pass laws to their benefit. Are you saying that it's okay for the RIAA to control ISPs, and sue regular people for millions of dollars just because they share couple of songs via P2P?
  • roxgod666, on 07/20/2009, -1/+22Rationalize? ***** that, i'm just a cheap ass who feels he gets special privileges in this world because he knows what a torrent is.
  • Bloodwine, on 07/20/2009, -2/+23It's a trap. They'll soon implement something that makes DRM look like a dream.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2009, -1/+22Probably when they figure out that much like SCO, suing your customers isnt a very good business model.
  • majinboy, on 07/20/2009, -2/+22Ok, now get rid of it from everything digital i.e. games, movies, software etc.
  • Chewie67, on 07/20/2009, -2/+21That's fantastic.

    Now someone tell the MPAA.
  • iamacyborg, on 07/20/2009, -1/+20Well, lets see here. The interstate commerce commission outlived its usefulness once the railroads no longer had a monopoly on interstate commerce due to nascent competition from trucking and airplanes.

    That was, what - 50-80 years ago?
  • Travelsonic, on 07/20/2009, -1/+19"Now how will diggers rationalize their theft ??"

    Since people don't seem to have a problem finding a way to rationalize calling copyright infringement theft or generalizing against all of Digg as if it were one homogeneus blob, that won't be a problem.
  • Sirocco, on 07/20/2009, -3/+20I'm pretty sure if we got a look at your music collection we'd laugh our asses off.
  • Travelsonic, on 07/20/2009, -1/+17"Sorry to break it to you, but there is NO justification for pirating music."

    Sorry to break it to you, but an opinion isn't fact. What is wrong to some is right to some and vice versa, and no amount of high horse-edness you express will kill the fact that morals are relative.
  • darlingt, on 07/20/2009, -0/+16Sure there is. It's called "civil disobedience." When the RIAA thinks they can sue someone for $750 per song they downloaded, I will do my best to make sure that they don't get any more money than is possible. If that means pirating, then so be it.
  • Spinducky08, on 07/20/2009, -2/+18This better not be a trick.

    "fool me once.....shame on....shame on you. Fool me twice......fool me, you can't get fooled again."
  • NorthMass, on 07/20/2009, -2/+17The RIAA is simply supporting this now because they want good PR while they use their government buddies like Joe Biden to push through government regulation of the internet.
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