The fact that digital rights management might always be a doomed experiment became clear with a fiasco that recently erupted after Sony BMG Music Entertainment added a technology known as XCP to popular CDs. Factor in the lawsuits that Sony BMG could face over the security holes that XCP opened in users' computers, and it's worth wondering whether the aftermath might exceed whatever piracy losses the company would have suffered without it.
November 21, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
It’s been the better part of a decade since Napster and other free song-sharing services began scaring the daylights of the music industry. And still recording companies can’t find an effective anti-piracy technology to save their hides.
The fact that so-called digital rights management might always be a doomed experiment became painfully clear with the fiasco that erupted after Sony BMG Music Entertainment added a technology known as XCP to more than 50 popular CDs.
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