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1. Russel McOrmond says:

   November 22, 2006 at 12:27 pm

   Recording industry still doesn’t unders
   The last paragraph is the most telling. In the VHS vs Betamax market shakedown it was simply two incompatible media formats. With DRM the entire purpose is to have copyright holders encode their content such that it is only accessible using “authorized” players — by definition, coming up with an interoperable standard isn’t possible as the purpose of the technology is to reduce interoperability.

   If music is accessible by all music players, then the DRM “doesn’t exist”.