Original story He has a point. What's to keep this from happening with any DRM scheme that involved checking in before playing?
I think that's half the reason Google's doing it - to prove the evils of DRM, even if it's at the expense of their own rep. Or I'd like to think so anyways, as I can't think of any other reason they'd pull a stunt like this. It's not like they don't have the cash to keep their validation servers active, even if they want to dump all future purchases.
That's a lovely thought but lets face it Google is a company with share holders now and any company answerable to share holders has to do whats in their best interests not the companies and not the public at large. But perhaps this will draw attention to the dangers of drm and more companies will go drm free, then the google publicity machine will start churning and state that "this was their intention all along"
If its assets cannot be bled dry then they are dropped at no or very small cost. Such is the way of companies controlled by shareholders. Greed rules the roost, I'm afraid.
