It's weird when this move is presented as giving more rights to the consumer, even when it is only about making the products usable in the first place.
EMI abandonned CD copyprotection (which they had introduced in 20003 in Europe) last year, because of many complaints by CD buyers who were unable to play the disc on DVD players, and unable to copy the music to their portable players.
So far, iTunes downloads can only be played on iPods and not on other portable players, which reduces the market potential and raises competition issues. Removing DRM will make the files usable on other players.
In both cases protection against copying was also a protection agains many legitimate uses. DRM technology wasn't intelligent enough, but I'm sure it will return as soon as those issues are solved.
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