A few months back I posted the news that Microsoft were going to shut down the servers that make their old MSN Music DRM work. This would have killed the DRM so that music people bought would stop working the next time they upgraded their OS or their computer. Today the news is out that MS have delayed the shut down for at least three years. This is obviously good news for the poor unfortunates who bought music form MS, but it doesn’t get around the core problem that DRM is a fundamentally flawed concept. You never actually own music that you buy that’s encumbered by DRM, you are just renting it for an un-known length of time. If you’re lucky you get to keep it for a few decades, if you’re not, just a few years!

[tags]DRM, Microsoft[/tags]