Macromedia jumps on DRM bandwagon with Contribute 2.0

July 18, 2003

According to a report at ExtremeTech, Macromedia will unleash it's new Contribute 2.0 in July sporting the controversial Macrovision Safecast technology. This is the same strategy that Intuit applied to it's Tax Software recently. What may be of interest to the readers at CDFreaks is that the security software gets busy writing info to track 0 of your hard drive. Here is a snip from the article:

"We honestly believe this is better for our customers," said Erik Larson, senior product marketing manager for Contribute. Larson called the Contribute DRM effort a "trial program" that the company will evaluate before possibly applying its other products."

"We're definitely benefiting by not leading in this space," Hale added, referring to Intuit's DRM issues.

Although few software products today use some form of DRM, in some circles the practice is becoming the norm. For example, some downloadable versions of Symantec's Norton Antivirus software include DRM, which Symantec executives have claimed is the most heavily-pirated software in the world.

Yes, I would think that a conservative approach might be prudent. Here we go again, having are rights trampled on for the allmighty dollar. What was that old saying? Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Source: http://www.extremetech.com/