Overwhelmingly Geek™

Over the last few months, I’ve been thinking about a way to justify the whole DRM (digital rights management) mantra, when non-DRM vendors such as Amazon.com are doing a fantastic job with sales of music online.

From a TV content providers perspective, it may be that the main problem is providing content to viewers which can generate revenue. Now often TV shows are screened on cable or free to air TV stations at roughly the same time worldwide. My proposal is that television shows are DRM’d for a certain period of time i.e. 3 – 6 months after which the DRM restrictions are lifted and the content can be encoded for viewing on other hardware devices.

What do you think?