I was trying to copy Beth Orton's new CD today (which I might add is legal in Canada, as long as it is for personal use) , however I was foiled by the DRM on the disc. Not only that, I couldn't even play the disc!
It seems that the company who published the cd made an agreement to have the DRM stuff hosted on the site www.musiconline.com. However, the site has been down at least for a couple of weeks. The CD itself does have one of the those autorun "install a piece of junk player without asking you", which I absolutely refuse to do, even before the big Sony scandal that occurred a couple of years ago.
So, I figure this is yet another example of the failure of DRM - if it prevents even basic accessing the content, it is more harmful than good. Really, why would a person go through all the trouble of dealing with this, when one can just go to the many P2P services and download tracks and/or the album?
