DRM: Digital Rights Management attempts to control digital music content online. I think this is an impossible task. The Internet is an almost uncontrollable force. There’s a multitude of websites and programs with downloadable music and there are possible ways to crack security codes.
The music industry is facing great difficulty with losing money to people who would rather download an artist’s track for free than pay for their latest CD.
Limewire (a music sharing program) now has a disclaimer that pops up to warn you what you’re about to load is an illegal version. It keeps them out of trouble, but you can still download the track.
The fact is that illegal music sharing is easy and vast amounts of people do it. Is it really likely the music industry can take every music track off the Internet? If they could how would they find a more productive way of publicizing new material?
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