Aspects of DRM to determine the citizenship of music services with artists and consumers. This is just a starting point- I may expand the list and do a scorecard in the next few weeks.

1. Giving artists the right to choose whether to distribute their works with DRM.
2. Giving consumers more choices through tiered pricing, diversity of offerings and purchase options.
3. Enabling interoperability between music services and devices, either through dual DRM/DRM-free offerings or deploying a DRM system compatible with many devices.
4. Flexibility in DRM management, such as the willingness to license the DRM system to third parties.
5. Allowing artists to raise prices (hey, if consumers don’t like it, they just won’t buy it, and prices will go down).

posted by Noel Le @ 2:57 PM |

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