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Digital Rights Management: Dead or Just Evolving?

Jan 23, 200813 min
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Episode description

On January 10 Amazon.com announced a partnership with Sony BMG Music Entertainment to offer music downloads without digital rights management software which typically limits how content can be used. Amazon now has all four major music labels along with thousands of independent ones selling songs without DRM technology. While DRM may be all but dead in the music industry experts at Wharton point out that it is still widely used in the online video industry due to what one faculty member calls ”a different market dynamic.”

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