My favorite thing about yesterdays Apple Philnote was the announcement that iTunes will transition into a mostly DRM free ecosystem. It was never Apples fault in the first place that the tracks were DRM encoded but somehow they are the ones ending up announcing the labels latest wake up call.
If fear is what drove the first digital music push then I hope optimism will drive the next. Complicated restrictions on a purchased file format never made sense when the same products older brother never had the same restrictions. Who knows if any money was lost because of DRM – I doubt it, it was just a pain in the ass that pissed off a few consumers.
In honor of the labels announcement (via Apple) here is a link to 5 of the greatest DRM blunders. My, how far we’ve come!
