Some weird news from the American record labels today. They are less supportive to the well known copy protections. Consumers in the States have protested very hard against these protections and the labels are getting a bit scared. Europeans haven't really raised their voices and that is why we have so many protected cd's.
Now major record labels themselves have put the brakes on the drive for copy protection, at least in the United States, even as record stores lobby for the locks to be added as soon as possible.
But in the United States, the largest consumer market in the world, the silence on the issue is increasingly conspicuous. Universal Music, whose executives led the industry last year by saying they would copy-protect a significant proportion of their discs by this summer, has had only three relatively small releases.
This makes me laugh. It is good to see that people stand up to this ridiculous protections and even get some results. Maybe time for the Europeans like myself to do the same? Read the entire article here.
Source: Cnet
