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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Carnage against DRM

Important post from Mircrosoft employee Dare Obasanjo AKA Carnage4Life on DRM and Vendor Lock-in:
A number of recent events in the digital music space has made me start coming around to Cory Doctorow's way of thinking on DRM.
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I now have to make music purchasing decisions based on whether I think iPod/iTunes or Zune/Zune Marketplace will be around in 5 years. That sucks.

I'm definitely not buying DRMed music anymore. Ripping from CDs is the way to go.

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