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Chained Melodies

Posted by michael on from the music-is-born-free-and-everywhere-it-is-in-chains dept.

NoData writes: "Salon is running an elegant article that covers the current state of the copy protection and circumvention debate. The article touches on the DMCA and the SSSCA, with input from Touretzky, Lessig, and others. It offers a dystopic vision of a future where geeks battle increasingly complex copy protection schemes until ultimately, any consumer control over media is outlawed outright. Refreshingly, the article is not a "Salon Premium" feature."

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  1. you bad evil hackers by stipe42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't you see the superbowl ads now?

    "Today I went to the movies, went to the grocery store, downloaded an mp3, and helped evil hackers steal money from the hands of starving musicians."

    stipe42

  2. Ultimate Copy Protection by onion2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quite simple really, and one both the music and movie industries appear to be implementing..

    Just make all the content so dull that noone would ever bother copying any of it.

    Quite why they bother protecting the latest Britney album is beyond me. Who the hell would want to duplicate that?

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  3. PUBLIC OUTBID by swagr · · Score: 4, Funny

    It seems the only way to get "heard" nowadays is with money.

    American public = 300,000,000
    * 50% on net = 150,000,000
    * 75% used mp3 = 112,500,000
    Assume that once in their lives each of these people will save $15 dollars, buy listening to an mp3 and realizing they don't want the album.

    These people have saved almost 1.7 billion dollars. If we used only 5% of those savings to "donate" to campains, that would be 84 million dollars worth of "speach" that would be heard.

    So in conclusion, send this money to me, and I'll get right to work.

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