03.09.2007 09:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Sony Connect Shunt Down: What about DRMs and Consumers?

As officially announced by SONY, its online music store, Connect, will be shunt down on March 2008, as the consequence of dropping proprietary format ATRAC. Now the question for consumers having purchased tracks from this online shop is: what to do with such DRM-loaded files? SONY published a dedicated FAQ with answers similar to the ones provided sometimes by Apple. To keep listening to the DRM-loaded tracks, one will need to burn them on a CD, and to re-encode them. Beside the fact the quality will be affected (depending on the codec), this also highlights a more general question: what will happen in 10 or 20 years from now on, when considering consumers purchased the right to get a top quality digital track, but will have to live with a DRM-free file with poor encoding. It also highlights how one can easily get ride of current DRMs, how useless they are; and in reality, a break to consumer'

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