DRM or digital rights management can save you a dollar every time you download a song. At least this seems to be the case as Yahoo and Sony are offering music downloads that are DRM free but are charging $1.99 per song instead of the standard iTunes price of $.99. I think DRM is a great concept but inhibits use of content to some extent. The reason is that every user is different and some want to listen to music in multiple places on multiple devices and DRM is not as flexible as it could be.
So DRM keeps people from truly maximizing their use of the music and other content they pay for.
Here is the article that clued me into this news.
greatthaman1984
April 29, 2010 at 5:15 amI have an I-audio M3 MP3 player (also plays OGG, WMA and ASF) which unfortunately does not support any DRM system. Can anybody recommend a legal music download site that I can use to download pay per track music? I know that I could use Napster, burn the music to a CD and then copy it back but thats a bit of a hassle and in any case I’ve read that Napster may be changing their DRM to stop that approach. http://www.loudbeats.com
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