How to Compete with Free: Debunking the Digital Rights Management Myth - (1 Comment)
By Jim Flynn, posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009After more than a decade of false promises, Digital Rights Management (DRM), which is technology designed to dictate what you can do with legally-purchased content on hardware you own, has done nothing to stop piracy. This article discusses how companies like Apple have exploited DRM to lock in customers and content companies, while locking our competition. I thought it would be OK to re-print this post, give that there’s new information indicated that DRM actually does the opposite of “keeping honest people honest.” A recent study by a Cambridge professor gives strong evidence that DRM actually induces honest people to get content illegally.
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