http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/ Engadget Comments for Virgin Digital packs up its DRM and goes home http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/Sep 24th 2007 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/Sep 24th 2007 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/
You want to share your wife with your friends, dude?]]>Sep 24th 2007 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/Sep 24th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/A perfect example where ignorance and arrogance from these companies defy Apple's customers, and ultimately bite the dust. ]]>Sep 24th 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/Sep 24th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/
Remember, companies come and go... ...and if DRM has its way, so will your music collection!]]>Sep 25th 2007 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/
...on the other hand it might not.]]>Sep 24th 2007 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/Sep 24th 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/
Hopefully this could lead to prosecutor pile of the competition authorities, as an example of Fruitzilla's vertical monopoly hurting competitors and consumers.]]>Sep 24th 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/]]>Sep 24th 2007 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/Sep 24th 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/virgin-digital-packs-up-its-drm-and-goes-home/
I think it's interesting that this audience thinks it's ok for Apple to have a complete lock-in on the DRM on their devices and not license their "FairPlay" DRM technology.

Given that companies like NBC and Napster and 1000's of others are using the widely available and licensed Windows Media Rights manager, shouldn't Apple be the one's playing fair?


Christopher Levy
clevy@buydrm.com
http://www.thedrmblog.com]]>Sep 25th 2007 1:51PM