April 30, 2003
Register on Apple’s DRM
Andrew Orlowski gripes about Apple’s DRM. The bit about initializing computers/drives is important, but his criticizing the “How to Backup Your Purchased Songs Bit” is pretty silly. Yes, it would make a whole lot more sense for Apple to sell a perpetual right to download a purchased song. They currently don’t, and I think that’s a bad business decision. But that’s not a knock against Apple’s DRM in this case. The support article encourages making back-up copies – they’re trying to make sure users don’t lose their music collection in a hard drive crash. Most online music services discourage making back-ups (through higher prices for burning, harsh DRM, etc.).
Filed by Derek Slater at 12:01 pm under General news
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