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Led Zeppelin clips may be hard to wipe off YouTube

1. Of course they will be. Fingerprinting is not going to work on cell phone or handycam shot footage, and
2. Surely ludicrous fan activity all over the net with poor quality sound and pictures only increases the hunger for the real deal?

As doug so succinctly puts it: “they are foolish, avaricious, clueless idiots and they deserve everything they get”

I have been saying this to anyone who’ll listen to my drunken ranting at web networking events for 2 years now.  I have believed it so much that every time I hear about another success of Sky By Broadband, 4od, BBC iPlayer or any other DRM crippled attempt to secure a dead position I snort derisively and start muttering under my breath.

TV networks are dead.  The business models they maintain are dead.  And the technology they are peddling now is to TV exactly what the Sony rootkit was to CDs.  Dead.  And likely to cause embarrassment.

Luckily Fake Steve Jobs is much more eloquent than I, and has the time to write something he’s actually thought through.

Rather obvious when you think about it…  Apple embeds your account information in its un-DRMed downloads.

The latest round of HD-DVDs have been cracked, only a week after the update.  That, in itself, is not surprising.  What is surprising is the way it came out.  Fascinating.

The horrifying possibility that Vista’s file deletion and copying problems may be in fact a ‘feature’ of the DRM is gaining some traction. Originally a conspiracy theory, more and more people are testing the case. Perhaps someone should make use of the Vista Bootkit to prove it once and for all?

Very interesting post over at TechCrunch about Amie Street Music. They offer DRM-free music downloads whose price varies according to popularity. All tracks start off free, and the price rises as the track is downloaded more often (to a maximum of $0.98). Fascinating idea. As Monsieur Arrington says Market driven prices and no DRM = Music Nirvana. Shame that the first release from more mainstream labels/artist is the Barenaked Ladies, but you can’t have everything I guess.

If it’s not Steve Jobs and it’s not the record company execs who exactly is it that’s keeping DRM alive?

EMI reportedly contemplating DRM-free music

There’s no question that EMI are seriously struggling at the moment (see previous posts). They have to sort themselves out, and this might be the first step of the way (although actually having artists people want to listen to would be another fine move)…

Doug puts it much more eloquently than me, so instead I will just point you at this article at the Toronto Star.

You can’t always get what you want

Ad-Supported Music Service Spiral Frog Loses CEO Before Delayed Launch