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How Apple is changing DRM

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As more stores and record labels abandon digital rights management, Apple may have an alternative plan for subscription services, writes Tim Anderson.

. . . But what's the real effect of DRM? Last year, EMI began offering songs without it on iTunes. "The industry has finally been able to get some hard data about how removing DRM restrictions from legitimately purchased tracks affects piracy," says Bill Rosenplatt, DRM specialist and president of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies. "The statistics show that there's no effect on piracy."

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DRM has had no effect on piracy - it's just a big pain in the butt for consumers.

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Reply#1 - Sat May 17, 2008 8:33 AM EDT
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