Sony Makes Sensible Move
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After all the stuff that Sony’s been up to in the past, this is actually an intelligent move. They’re going to phase out and shut down their Connect music service. They’re doing this because it’s become obvious that their proprietary format isn’t going to be able to compete in the changing world where more and more companies are moving away from proprietary formats and DRM Schemes to a more open approach that allows people to get their downloads in MP3, WMV and other common formats and without the Digital Rights Management schemes that only serve to make things difficult for legitimate users.
That’s the thing that the RIAA, MPAA and other alphabet soup organizations are simply not getting. All this DRM is accomplishing is to make things hard for legitimate users. Pirates on the other hand aren’t being slowed down at all. For every DRM and copy protection system that gets developed these innovative people come up with ways to defeat them and the copies get made and distributed anyway. It makes much better sense to just open stuff up, make things easy for customers again. It’s certain that lots of people will get out their personalized pens and sign up for more downloads
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