Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM"

bogess writes "Yahoo! Music General Manager Ian Rogers recently gave a speech to some music executives about the future of the Internet music business and promised his company will not be involved in Digital Rights Management anymore." Another straw in the wind: Nine Inch Nails has now followed Radiohead in ridding themselves of the labels and going independent.

Comments

Re:Labels Wising Up?

[QuantumG]

Just to confirm my theory, you have never had anything stolen, have you?

Re:Labels Wising Up?

[Aladrin]

Maybe you didn't notice, but almost nobody here is a lawyer, and none of us are in court at the moment. You can pretend that it matters what the court says, but when speaking to people, you'll have to use the same language.

When you go to court, feel free to use the 'legal definition' of 'steal'. Here, we use English.

Re:Labels Wising Up?

[arivanov]

Yes I have.

I have learned my lesson about "sharing" 20 years ago at the age of 17 when a couple of friends of mine "shared" the belongings from our family apartment at a party. It was further reinforced by being beaten up by a couple of payed henchmen into a nearly comatose state after the police shook out most of our stolen property from them.

Even if something is out there in the open and you can pick it up while walking by this does not mean that you should do so. It may be someone's livelihood and they may have worked hard to create it.

In addition to this, since that 20 years old adventure, I have had quite a few items and ideas pinched. In fact there are a couple of people out there sipping Daikiri on a beach in the Bahamas after making 200+ million off some of my ideas. There are a few others who have made a living and a career of claiming my work to be their own (for smaller amounts of money).

Despite that, I do not think that stealing people's work, ideas or property is justified. Ever.