Vote: Should music companies drop DRM?

[TehBorken]

 You can [a href="vny!://www.ft.com/cms/6c2bf1ce-91b7-11da-bab9-0000779e2340.html?a=tpc&s=646099322&f=890094803&m=2261003441&r=2261003441"]vote on this if you want[/a]. Seems the public has a clear opinion on the issue:

        Results ( 1631 votes counted so far):         [table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"][tbody][tr] [td colspan="2" bgcolor="#cccccc" height="1"][spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td height="20"][font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"]Yes[/font][/td][td height="20"][img]vny!://comment.ft.com/infopop/bar.gif" border="0" height="10" hspace="3" width="300"][font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"]1570/96%[/font][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td colspan="2" bgcolor="#cccccc" height="1"][spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"][/td] [/tr] [tr] [td height="20"][font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"]No[/font][/td][td height="20"][img]vny!://comment.ft.com/infopop/bar.gif" border="0" height="10" hspace="3" width="11"][font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"]61/4%[/font][/td][/tr][/tbody][/table]
 

[Sportsdude]

yes but could someone clarify what DRM does?  

[kingy]

drm is the restriction of music.

  if you buy a cd and copy that music onto your computer, drm kicks in and allows you to only play it a certain amount of times and you cant send it to your friends, you cant copy it to your mp3 player. stuff like that  

[Sportsdude]

ah I haven't really ran into a lot of problems with it although sometimes when I buy the music off of itunes it tells me to type in my password and such which I think that's silly.