An Old Form of Music DRM Is New Again

medicine service of process embed personal information into the songs you grease one’s palms as sekret DRM is n’t novel . But it couldtake on a whole new level of relevanceonce cloud - found euphony pelt services from Apple or Amazon or Google last launch .

As those three work out deals with the major labels to do a swarm - base medicine inspection and repair , TechCrunch ’s sources say that the labels “ are demand that a user can only stream euphony that is watermarked to their username . ” The major reason this would be a stride backward as described , is that back door DRM , as privateness advocate like to call the exercise of scribbling your user information inside a vocal , did n’t incur any useable restriction . It was like writing your name on a CD . A lilliputian weird , but it ’d still bring perfectly on anything it ’s shoved on , like any other DRM - free euphony , just with the fairly reasonable expectation that it ’s not shared with a million other people .

What ’s being delineate here sounds like more of a functional limitation , turn user information into a more participating form of DRM , if songs can only be played by a specific username on a specific service . It ’s venturing into Steam - like district , where you effectively would n’t own the medicine ( and I distrust the permit agreement for these cloud services might learn as much ) .

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True , we ’re babble about cyclosis versus download , cloud vs. local , so it ’s not entirely excessive to endeavor to confine the service in ways to ensure that everybody at a potential all - you - can - eat snack bar has their own dental plate . But the come shift could be transformative , if streaming or cloud services become the primary way people consume medicine , versus downloading , which seems to partially be what Apple , Amazon and Google — not to mention theraggedy criminal record labels — are betting on , or at least prepare for .

When you do n’t actually own something , how much can you complain about it not working flop ? [ TechCrunch ]

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