While EMI denies they have scrapped DRM altogether, they have not manufactured any new disks with DRM for months. It’s about time someone started waking up.
Sphere: Related ContentEMI Group Plc said on Monday it was reviewing its use of the controversial content protection technology used on CDs, known as digital rights management (DRM), but has not scrapped it altogether.
Music companies launched DRM in a bid to curb piracy but the software means that the discs are incompatible with the iPod, the market-leading digital music player made by Apple Computer Inc.
Critics also argue that the system has not worked as consumers could be driven to illegal sites to download music to the popular iPod instead.
A spokeswoman for EMI said it had not manufactured any new disks with DRM, which restricts consumers from making copies of songs and films they have purchased legally, for the last few months.
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