Drm

Digital Rights Management

1. What is DRM and how does it affect everyday uses of music's and technology?

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, this is a term used to say that a certain song or a whole album is protected and can only function in one way specified by the terms of the Digital Rights Management. Let's say you download the song November Rain, from I-tunes and want to place it on your ipod then the restrictions will let you, but if you want to place that same song on a windows based MP3 player then you can't because the Digital Rights Management that I-tunes places on the songs prohibits the placement of these songs on that device. So that's why we "Teens" use programs such as Lime wire or I-Mesh. Other Peer to Peer programs such as Aries, Azures, U-torrent, and Demonoid. In order to bypass this security feature implemented by the use of DRM's. Does DRM only apply to music? The answer is no DVD player's use DRM's to copyright the DVD's so that they can't be "burned" or copied.

2. What are the Pro's and Con's

The Pro's and Con's are extremely simple, If you are selling music or DVD's then it is an advantage to you but if you are the consumer than you are at a disadvantage.

3. What is your opinion on the DRM's in the music industry?

The music industry should use DRM because it protects their profit. So DRM's are good for one thing but if you look at it in the eyes of the consumer then it is bad because that means we might have to buy the song twice if we had an I-pod and then switched to a Zune Mp3 player.

4. What would you change if you were a music industry?

I would imply the DRM's in a different format I would allow the user to register his Mp3 players and or computers in his house and the allow him to use that song on those formats. So if he had an I-pod and a Zune than he could use that song on both. Also if the customer had more than one computer than he could use it on a different computer as well do that as well.

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