Anonymous

Midlands

IT Developer

DRM should be used to prevent piracy.

That's all.

Not to stop an individaul who has purchased a CD from playing it in a PC.

Not to stop someone who downloaded a track onto a white MP3 player from playing it on a mobile phone.

And most definitely NOT to force customers into buying their music from only one outlet, just to match their chosen hardware.

Sony audio CD players play CDs from other music publishers apart from their own, so why doesn't an iPod download music from other on-line music stores? Surely this restriction is illegal?

It is most surely immoral.

And while we're on the subject, can anyone tell me why music from a particular artist can only be purchased from one record company?

Surely the artist owns the copyright in his/her work, not the record company?

Do Kodak and Fuji therefore own the copyright in every photograph ever taken? I don't think so...