Comments on: Digital Rights Management’s Victims: The Customers http://gbgames.com/blog/2008/05/digital-rights-managements-victims-the-customers/ An Indie Game Developer's somewhat interesting thoughts Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PooBear http://gbgames.com/blog/2008/05/digital-rights-managements-victims-the-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-56841 PooBear Thu, 08 May 2008 15:24:38 +0000 http://gbgames.com/blog/2008/05/digital-rights-managements-victims-the-customers/#comment-56841 Of course Microsoft need to handle their old customer's music better than this, their behaviour is obviously wrong. Yet, what is the biggest music portal on the net with a shocking 50million customers? iTunes All nice and DRM'd up. So does this mean "normal" people don't care about DRM ? Microsoft have been very silly, they should have found a way to just allow the old music to continue to work, running a server is not expensive. They could surely have released a patch to remove the DRM from these old tracks. DRM going out of date should not be a problem for any decent company. They just need the foresight to plan for disasters and make sure DRM unlocking patches can be released or a seperate server can be maintained. Of course Microsoft need to handle their old customer’s music better than this, their behaviour is obviously wrong. Yet, what is the biggest music portal on the net with a shocking 50million customers? iTunes

All nice and DRM’d up.

So does this mean “normal” people don’t care about DRM ?

Microsoft have been very silly, they should have found a way to just allow the old music to continue to work, running a server is not expensive. They could surely have released a patch to remove the DRM from these old tracks.

DRM going out of date should not be a problem for any decent company. They just need the foresight to plan for disasters and make sure DRM unlocking patches can be released or a seperate server can be maintained.

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