Monday, October 10, 2011

Removal of DRM may decrease music piracy?

Removal of DRM may decrease music piracy?

Researchers at Rice University and Duke University said that the level of piracy in digital music could possibly be decreased if intrusive copy protection features were removed. It was Napster that sent the music industry, some artists and especially the RIAA down the road of piracy paranoia. For the better half of the last decade, every owner of a computer was labeled as a potential music pirate by default and the industry chose a path to lock down its music rather than innovate and catch up with a changing music distribution model.

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