More on Yahoo Go
A couple of days ago, we blogged about Yahoo’s new DVR and video-on-demand software service called Yahoo Go. The general consensus among the tech community was that Yahoo was launching Go to directly compete with the likes of TiVo and Comcast — the big names in recordable broadband home entertainment.
Today, this article from TGDaily showed up on the front door over at Digg. It raises some interesting points, the most curious of which is Yahoo Go’s almost complete lack of DRM.
This jumped out at me:
Go for TV already offers music videos, although not in recordable quality or with recordability, but also not with a price tag attached, either. For now, no DRM is attached to these broadband downloads, mainly because of the lack of recordability there. But if Go for TV can continue to leverage the ability of users to utilize the content they’re already getting, it may never need to employ DRM - especially if the real purpose of its broadband link to the user is mainly to provide a pipeline for advertising.
Of course, the observation that Yahoo is competing against Microsoft’s Media Center in the software DVR realm is a no-brainer. We’ll bring more news about this as it develops.
