Economist comes out against DRM

April 30th 2007 at 4:37 pm

As Cory Doctorow points out, the Economist came out against DRM in a big way recently, slamming entertainment industries for penalizing consumers.

After likewise shooting itself in the foot for ages, the record industry is now falling over itself to abandon DRM (digital rights management) on CDs. A number of online music stores such as eMusic, Audio Lunchbox and Anthology have given up using DRM altogether. In a recent survey by Jupiter Research, two out of three music industry executives in Europe reckoned that dropping DRM would improve sales.

Publishers are running behind the curve, but hopefully they will throw more of their energy into non-DRM efforts. As I have said before, knowing that a part of my income is non-existent (even if its a little bit) due to the under utilization of ebooks frustrates me.

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