From the what now? dept
While some music-industry execs are slowly realizing the downside of DRM, a new report says there's a downside for consumers: tests found that Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM hurts MP3 players' battery life by up to 25%, while iPod users get 8% more play time listening to unprotected files than ones protected with Apple's FairPlay DRM. So in addition to being a general nuisance, copy-protection also helps users get less out of their MP3 players -- and don't forget how it doesn't help artists either -- yet record labels continue to somehow believe it's a necessity. >> Techdirt
Gotshrimp >> It's a good thing to protect what is yours, but after you sold it it's not yours anymore. DRM will never work the way companies envision it to work, but it's one of the major constraints in a positive take of in the digital media space. Digital media should mean more value against less cost!
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