Anonymous

USA

Honest Consumer

DRM is having a very negative impact on the industry. Bottom line is the consumer does not want it -- period. The industry will always lose some sales due to piracy, yet rather than embrace new ways to market (increasingly inferior) products they resort to draconian measures that push away the consumer. Ironically, it is the consumer who actually funds the music/video business, but Big Content is confused about this.

If Big Content would not insist on DRM, then iPod/iTunes would not be so powerful. Your DVD here would play in England too. And so on.

I find the value of lossy compressed, DRM infected content to be exactly zero. I will not buy it -- ever. I can't state my position more plainly. It's up to Big Content if they want my money or not.