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For those obviously not in the know, ALL the major music lables have dropped DRM. Try looking it up. DRM doesn't stop piarcy the music industry is juts now figuring that out. A major book publisher recently dropped DRM for good after conducting an experiment in which some of it's audio books had DRM and some didn't. They found that the NONE of the non-DRMed audio books could be found on torrent sites. The ones they did find actually were the DRMed version that had the DRM stripped out of it.
DRM has no effect on the dishonest people and hurts the HONEST ones which are the majoirty. It increases the cost of producing digital content which will be passed on to the consumer. It also makes owning digital media frustrating since DRM limits your enjoyment of it in many ways.
Amazon is the largest seller of digital music. It also sells it DRM free. Coincidence? I think not.
If members downloading and keeping you content is costing you money then DRM is not the answer. You'll either need to raise your membership rates or pay for affilaites less and cut costs other ways. Fact is if I really really want your content DRM is NOT going to stop me.
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