To DRM or Not to DRM?
Digital rights management (DRM), or as some prefer to call it, digital restrictions management, means copy protection, and the various technologies designed to prevent illegal copying. The concept might sound good, since the idea of people copying your music for free sounds like a rip-off. But in practice it’s a nightmare. It doesn’t even slow down big-time pirates who reproduce and sell thousands of copies of movies and music CDs. It doesn’t stop the clever kids who want something for nothing. It mainly gets in the way of legitimate paying customers.
It adds an intolerable overhead burden to online distribution, because this requires always-available authentication servers. Already this is falling apart after just a few years. ...
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