Yahoo Music Exec Is No DRM Fan

Yahoo Music VP and general manager Dave Goldberg suggested to attendees at the Music 2.0 conference that music labels should try selling their songs online without the encumbrance of copy protection schemes. As lunch sponsor of the reported on Goldberg's keynote address, where the executive suggested However, Apple has sold over 1 billion songs through its iTunes Store, and utilizes the Fairplay DRM scheme for its music. While that music can easily be placed on an iPod, owners of competing portable music players cannot do so because Apple does not license Fairplay to the music labels. Goldberg's comments dovetail with the prevailing sentiment among many music fans. By limiting the user's ability to listen to a song they have legally purchased, the music labels drive fans to options like file-sharing instead. document.write("Email murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.