Apple 2.0: Is DVD Ripping in Apple TV’s Future? This week Apple announced the end of DRM for iTunes. The market spoke and, apparently, someone is finally on the side of the customer. See this article at the Economist.
Belatedly, music executives have come to realise that DRM simply doesn’t work. It is supposed to stop unauthorised copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated. All it does is make life difficult for paying customers, while having little or no effect on clandestine copying plants that churn out pirate copies.
Last month, the Dist. Ct. for N. Cali. ruled against the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) saying that, under their agreement the DVD CCA gives, copying DVDs for personal use is legal. The judgment is very narrow, and I doubt it will be a wedge to go against DVD DRM.
Filed under: Copyright, DRM, Fair Use, Infringment Cases
