At least, it’s a step in the right direction… This whole DRM, copy protection business is self-defeating anyway. Big “media” companies are real dinosaurs, they try to protect their assets against unavoidable (technological) evolution, and in doing so they’re hurting the consumers, and themselves eventually. They put so many limitations on the consumers that the consumers find ways to break out, if only because they’re pissed off.

What those big corps. really need to do is to embrace evolution rather than deny and repress it. They need to be proactive, not reactive. They need to reinvent themselves and their business models. They’d stand to make pots of money eventually. But that would require the guts to make “industrial” decisions, which are incompatible with quarterly financial management…

i hear ya frog. i just really hope drm goes away but the evil recording/film industries are really lobbying for crap like that so i can’t really see it going away in the near future but who knows, weirder things have happened.

I agree with you, it won’t go away, but people will find ways to circumvent the nonsense (the famous ‘gendarme et voleur’ chase). The dinosaurs will eventually suffocate from their own myopia and die. New companies/models will emerge. That’s the story of the world

And on a personal note: last year I bought a CD in France from Universal, 19€, 13 tracks of which only 6 are decent; besides, I cannot play the CD on my computer, nor in my car (mp3 compatible). I’m *so* incensed! Who do they think they’re kidding?! I’ve decided to *never* buy a CD of popular music ever again (message to dinosaurs: is that what U want?). Now, I find my “own way”, CD and DVD-wise. I’m everything but a hacker, but I’m also everything but a pigeon. Media dinosaurs: take notice, morons!