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I think that DRM for music is only maligned because the major players weren't able to come up with a single unified scheme (either for encryption or for encoding). As a result, it becomes a distraction, because not every song plays on any player. There are many incompatible formats that play on a subset of available players.

In the case of DVDs, everyone standardized on one scheme, and any DVD plays in any (region appropriate) DVD player. The encryption itself isn't really a problem, and no one complains about it (except for people who want to pirate DVDs).



"and no one complains about it"

Except the folks who want to legally play DVDs on their linux box without paying for a commercial (and thus, licensed) piece of DVD software ;)

Disclaimer: I haven't looked into this portion of the issue for quite some time. It might be a moot point, now.




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