So Capcom senior VP Christian “Sven” Svensson mentioned that Capcom is losing money because the Playstation Network is down. This is especially hard on Capcom, because the phone-home DRM Capcom uses has locked all of their Playstation customers out of their games.
Attack on Sony's PSN demonstrates how ridiculous and anti-consumer some DRM solutions are.
There are other reasons why the music industry will either push Amazon for new licenses or take the legal route, and their names rhyme with Schmapple and Croogle.
"If Amazon can launch its service with no licenses, then Apple and Google would be fools to get licenses because they'd be at a cost disadvantage," Robertson said. "If the labels do nothing, they're basically inviting Google and Apple to follow the same strategy."
Amazon launch Cloud Drive, new storage service accompanied by a streaming music player called Cloud Player, without settling it with record labels first. Bold move that will have interesting consequences.
et's say my goal is to sell 10,000 copies of something. And let's say that if by putting DRM in it I sell 10,000 copies and I make my money, and if by having no DRM 100,000 copies go into circulation and I still sell 10,000 copies. Which of those is the better outcome? I think having 100,000 in circulation and selling 10,000 is way better than having just the 10,000 that are paid for and nobody else benefits.
Tim O'Reilly shares his view about DRM. It's difficult not to like this guy.
My government is being pressured by the USA to criminalize ripping a DVD into a file even if the only thing I do with the file is watch the movie at home on exactly the same device that plays a DVD. I can "buy" some movies on iTunes, but not in HD. And they have DRM that restricts moving them from device to device. I have anxiety about DRM, I never know if the DRM servers will be shut down and I'll be left locked out of my movies, as has happened repeatedly in Entertainment history.
Interesting perspective on movie DRM. I have no arguments to argue with it: legitimate customers are punished for buying original movies (the same with games) while the piracy offers superior user experience (!). Is it only Apple that is capable of solving this problem as it did with music and iTunes?
