Major League Baseball has decided to change their DRM provider. This has been a big job for them, having to build a completely new system and transfer all their content across. There is also the problem that any company in this situation faces, how to maintain the downloads of their existing customers. The realistic options are to issue customers with new digital certificates that support the new system, or to keep the old system running for authentication of old content. These solutions both have their own costs and difficulties, particularly when there is no prospective end date for supporting these videos.
I have made no secret of my opinion that DRM does nothing to limit illegal copying. Non-circumvention and usability are incompatible goals. What DRM does is seriously inconvenience users. The nefarious can get around whatever is there, and the honest user gets their use of the product compromised.
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