I have a (slightly pretentious1) story for why legitimate customers dislike DRM. It is a story in four parts. I. Whereupon Our Hero Does the Right Thing One of the most successful PC games of all time is Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft. It has sold approximately nine million copies since it’s release in 1998. It is, [...]
Since I frequently get reactions to things I write about on this blog (much to my surprise) I thought in light of my failure to get a response from Relic Entertainment I’d write them a letter and publish it here. Letters don’t usually have titles but if mine did it would be called, ‘Hi, I [...]
As regular readers would be aware, I’m a fan of giving Apple money. I like my iPod Nano I bought on my birthday last year and I’m pretty sure my next laptop will be a MacBook of some description. I also took the opportunity to avail myself of some of the DRM-free tracks that went [...]
As I’ve made clear in a few posts to the blog, I believe in DRM-free music. I believe in it so much I’m willing to support the Russian mob and spend $20 on a Damon Albarn side-project I don’t even really want. Yesterday, though, promised to be the end of those dalliances for good when [...]
Some are calling it the end of DRM. That’s probably going a bit far. DRM seems too lucrative in the burgeoning markets of ringtones and videos to disappear anytime soon. Still, as far as music albums go, the announcement by EMI that it would be making its entire digital catalgoue available DRM-free was incredible news. [...]