It depends what you mean by "failed" Fairplay (Apple's DRM) is circumvented by simply burning your tracks to CD, then ripping to MP3. I'd count that as a failed DRM mechanism, as it's essentially useless. If the BBC implements DRM that's as "good" as Fairplay, I'll be happy (as long as they don't spend to much of my licence fee on it).
I'm sure (well not really, but that's a different debate) HD-DVD and\or Blu-Ray will make millions too, but I'd say that their DRM has failed already too. On 05/02/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is all my personal opinion. > withdrew DRM, since it totally failed, like it always will iTunes Music Store (solely selling DRMed content?) appears to be doing pretty well... over 2bn songs, 50m TV episodes and 1.3m films sold [1]. It turned over around $1.7bn last financial year [2]. Doesn't make it right, of course, but it's hardly "failed". J [1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09itunes.html [2] http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/10/107357/reports/10K_FY2006.pdf- they don't breakdown the revenue far enough, but its about $1.7 to $1.8bn I'd reckon. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
