http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/582 News and commentary about antitrust, economics, technology, policy Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/582#comment-3194 Antitrust Review » The Beginning of the End of DRM for Music? Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:59:58 +0000 http://www.antitrustreview.com/archives/582#comment-3194 <p>[...] From an antitrust perspective, DRM that restricts the choice of music player can create market power because they function as a technological lock-in: take Apple’s iPod, which will only play music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store, tracks ripped from a CD, or mp3 files without DRM protections (hence Yahoo’s claim that A Public Affair will play on any player). On the official Yahoo music blog, director of product management Ian Rogers wrote: “As you know, we’ve been publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for a while now. [...]</p> […] From an antitrust perspective, DRM that restricts the choice of music player can create market power because they function as a technological lock-in: take Apple’s iPod, which will only play music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store, tracks ripped from a CD, or mp3 files without DRM protections (hence Yahoo’s claim that A Public Affair will play on any player). On the official Yahoo music blog, director of product management Ian Rogers wrote: “As you know, we’ve been publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for a while now. […]

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