To DRM or not to DRM, that is the question
In our business talks in the last 2 days the topic DRM kept popping up. Well, we can do Digital Rights Management (and we integrated that with Mobipocket already about 2 years ago), but we advise not to. At least not for smaller publishers. While selling a lot of CDbaby songs for over half a year now, we see, that people actually are willing to pay for non-protected MP3s, because they can use these tunes on every device they got and when I dive into the various BitTorrent sites, nobody is distributing that content there. DRM seems to be a reason for some people to just break it and distribute those files illegally. For whatever reasons, the customers of those open files seem to have a certain sense for fair usage!
April 11th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Well DRM only helps you if you have a publisher and music distribution (the record company). If you are the music creator, you can sell it, or give it away any way you want. So everybody just needs to create more music themselves, share all. The music business is changed.