Re:Breaking Spotify DRM with PANDA
by shmerl on Friday July 04, 2014 @07:03PM
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> Except with Spotify you are not buying music. You are paying a subscription to their streaming services. DRM is the only way they can protect the artists.
1. Renting does not make sense for digital goods (I already explained in the past why).
2. DRM doesn't protect anything. I.e. it can't enforce the renting paradigm. This very article demonstrates that DRM is broken and it can't stop piracy. Therefore there is no need to use it ever even if we assume that it's an ethical practice (it is not). All DRM does is punishing paying customers by crippling the usability of the product (limiting supported devices / platforms / players / formats and so on), while having zero effect on pirates who pirate the same stuff DRM free.
1. Renting does not make sense for digital goods (I already explained in the past why).
2. DRM doesn't protect anything. I.e. it can't enforce the renting paradigm. This very article demonstrates that DRM is broken and it can't stop piracy. Therefore there is no need to use it ever even if we assume that it's an ethical practice (it is not). All DRM does is punishing paying customers by crippling the usability of the product (limiting supported devices / platforms / players / formats and so on), while having zero effect on pirates who pirate the same stuff DRM free.