DRM is bad for your health
In the last 2 weeks 3 things happened which involved 3 different companies which should tell everybody that DRM infection is bad for you.
First Google closed his video store and then automatically your videos, which one may argue belongs to you after you payed for them, become unusable. Then Microsoft had issues with the activation servers for Vista and as a result 12000 users (according to Microsoft) had reduced functionality or locked systems. Think of the “activation” as DRM applied to software. And now today I read about Sony which is switching the online music store from ATRAC (the DRM infected sound format) to Windows Media in US (another DRM infected sound format). In their FAQ they suggest to the users that have music in ATRAC format bought from the store to burn an audio CD and then ripped the CD in MP3 format for the user to continue to enjoy the music that they already bought.
Somehow these companies are managing to campaign against DRM better than all the organizations that are fighting against DRM.
