DRM is short for "Screw The Customer"...

[alexpgp]

From Ars Technica:

DRM can simply prevent snippets of songs from being made, but cell providers and handset vendors can also block user-created ringtones from being installed as an artificial way to boost carrier revenue. The EFF's displeasure is currently focused on the iPhone and Apple's iTunes, which charges users an extra buck to convert a purchased song into a ringtone. If that's not using DRM to nickel-and-dime customers (rather than stop piracy), then we don't know what is.

And because this is proprietary DRM, Apple can do what it wants. In this case, it wants to charge users a dollar for a ringtone that only works on a single phone (guess which one?). Switch phones and you get the chance to buy the ringtone again. Sweet.

Scroom.

Cheers...

Comments

[eastexpert.livejournal.com]

I've read somewhere that Microsoft would want to scrap DRM.

As for the Apple... why are people still buying anything from the company that treats them with utter disrespect and milks their wallets?! Anyway they deserve what they get because of that.

Won't touch Apple with a bargepole.

[madhacktress.livejournal.com]

Apparently some people buy Apple products and whatnot because it looks preeeeeetty. Or so I've been told from the likes of those who wait in very long lines for Apple products and who must have, must have and, I say, MUST HAVE the latest in Apple OS software.

I don't get it myself.

[eastexpert.livejournal.com]

I've heard the version of "iPhones are COOL!" which doesn't differ much from what you've heard... The other gory details about what's NOT cool about iPhones don't seem to deter the fans at all.

Crazy, outright crazy, innit. This is why they've called fans, fanatics.