DRM Dead
Steve Jobs recently announced that EMI, a major music label, will now sell songs on iTunes without DRM. Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace quickly followed. What is DRM? It is what stops you from buying songs from Microsoft and playing them on your iPod. It is what stops you from making backups of your music files. It is what stops you from sharing a song you bought on iTunes with your friend, even though you can share a CD with your friend. It is rights-withholding and useless. It costs media giants millions of dollars to implement, a cost passed down to you.
Finally, the first moves to demolishing DRM are on its way. Mark Shuttleworth, the creator of Ubuntu (an excellent version of Debian Linux), wrote the most eloquent essay on DRM I have ever read. I recommend you check it out.
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