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IMO, consumers are accepting of DRM right now because technology isn't to a point where the restrictions are that visible. Consumers don't have media players in their cars yet (largely due to auto makers fears of lawsuits), nor do most households have more than one or two media consumption devices they can use with their purchased files.

If the market isn't shaped by laws and regulations, I think we'll find that DRM is a fad, and nothing more. In a free market, I completely believe that DRM would go away due to normal market forces. We may actually never know, unfortunately.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/
My TiVo will play MP3's, yet I have almost 2000 songs that won't play on it because they are iTMS DRM'd. So I go out and find torrents of the albums/songs that I have DRM'd so that I can play them on my TiVo and other MP3 players.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/Dec 19th 2005 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/
provided there was a convenient foolproof method of accounting for what was downloaded (as to reimburse the appropriate artists) this would be an invaluable marketing tool for the record labels.

so they'd a) make more money b) get useful consumer data c) have less work to do in sueing 12 year olds. i guess that makes too much sense...

but whatever. i mostly just buy CDs and rip em. works for me.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/Dec 19th 2005 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/
I think the biggest problem is that music companies don't tell customers what they can and can't do with their music. They say you can't copy it, but there are exceptions. They say you can't play it for the public, again there are exceptions.

I for one will not buy music if I am only allowed to keep it in more than one format. I think ITMs is a total rip off. I'd much rather rip a CD myself and use it anywhere. Am I willing to pay for that, damn straight I am. People bitch about DRM and then they buy it. We as a society are to damn cheap and we don't read the fine print.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/18/entelligence-people-will-live-with-drm-as-long-as-its-done/Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM