DRM as an end in itself
Just in case you needed any more proof that the media cartels are drawing a very distorted image of copyright protection and drm, read what Cory writes:
The OMA licensing cost was $1 per handset, which means that buying OMA for all of last year’s phones would have cost $684 million — more than the total market for digital music.
This also makes it quite clear why the tech-companies are willing to get behind the media-companies ludicrous demands: apparently there’s more money in drm than the whole media business. Considering this, it’s quite obvious why microsoft, apple &co wanna become the gatekeepers of digital media and why you shouldn’t trust any claims that they have the artists or consumers in mind when they defend their stance on drm. Someone needs a reality check and it’s not the copyfighters.