Week 6~ Is Digital Rights Management (DRM) The Best Way To Save The Music Industry?

While there are advantages to using DRM on music in a bid to reduce the amount of music downloaded illegally from internet sources, there are always going to be programmers who find another source to download from which raises the question of whether music will ever be free from illegal downloads? Another issue with DRM is that while it benefits artists whose music is already popular and people are willing to already pay for it, bands or artists that are less popular or just starting out will find it harder for people to access their music and help them gain popularity. One of the best ways of combating the idea of DRM was Radiohead when they chose to leave their album online available for everyone to download for as much as they wanted, they could pay full price or they could pay nothing, at the same time this helped their popularity with the consumer so everyone benefited but whether other bands would benefit in the same way is another matter. In my personal opinion DRM is not the best way to save the music industry.