Recent research confirms that DRM is indeed a complete lie
It sure is nice to get market confirmation to our analysis and predictions. This time there is an interesting statistics revealed by Cory Doctorow in his speech at the Digital Rights Management conference in London. According to him, BigChampagne, an online media market research group, has found that "DRM-protected files exclusively released through iTunes typically appear in unprotected form on P2P networks 180 seconds later" (taken from Blogzilla). Now, is that a proof that DRM protects nothing or what? Which begs the question, why have the studios and labels mandated DRM? And why do tech firms like Microsoft and Apple support them in that? Read our previous post about DRM for the answer.
