[cc-community] NIN album / DRM

Robert Atwood (lists) lists at atwood.org.uk
Tue May 20 18:11:24 EDT 2008


Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Denver Gingerich <denver at ossguy.com> wrote:
>> The correct solution is to fix their system so that it allows them to
>> make the album available without DRM.
> [...]


>> neither is the case, then let this be a lesson to organizations that
>> accept non-open source solutions.
> 
> Yep.

which dare I guess may be in large part the intent of the artist in 
choosing such a license? So, hopefully, more and more  of their  fans 
will become aware of the issues? I've no knowledge that this is the case 
but maybe?



> 
>> As Mike mentioned, a parallel system might be an option, but that
>> would suffer from not being integrated into the search and other
>> features of the existing system, making it harder to find and use
>> albums that cannot be distributed with DRM.

Or just replace it with a system that ONLY distributes NON-drm matarial, 
  Let fans of DRM artists go suffer



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