iRiver gives customers the choice of switching off DRM

Posted May 29th 2006 12:03AM by Grant Robertson

An example of a hardware company that understands choice when it comes to DRM. iRiver, makers of a few really sharp mp3 players, have taken a hint from their customers and released an official version of firmware that's been floating around a few user communities. >> Digital Music Weblog Gotshrimp >> DRM is the worst possible solution for protecting IP. We are used to buy a record, CD, DVD or other piece of kit to store our music/film etc. on. After we have purchased the IP we want to use/listen/view it. Untill now this has always been possible without constraints and today we have a more easy way of accessing our entertainment etc. and this suddenly becomes a pain in the .... why?  The industry has to stop trying to take as much money as possible out of people and start supplying as much as possible compelling ways of accessing and buying entertainment. People are willing to pay for what they use, this is quite a normal thing for most of us. Today we manage the exeptions and cultivate illegal use IP, it's a strange......