re: #452 buzzsawmonkey

Maybe I’m still tooling around in the horse and buggy, but who’s requiring you to apply DRM to your own creations regardless of your wishes?

The RIAA and the MPAA would like nothing more. The only thing stopping Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple from implementing it on the OS level, is that there would be massive hell to pay from end users, esp. freelance artists.

Here’s what happens when DRM goes wrong. When Yahoo!’s music download (DRM-based) got shut down, the files that people had downloaded were no longer playable. At least they had the decency to let people download the DRM-free versions of the songs they had purchased.