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DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble?
digitaldame2 writes "Many opponents of DRM have been overjoyed at recent efforts to free media from its grip. But PC Mag Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff believes the whole world has gone mad. His view is that our digital economy will collapse this way, and it could be followed by countless others. 'The music industry's moves have been terrified reactions to staunch the bleeding of millions of dollars in revenue down the drain. For maybe a year, music companies thought they had the situation under control, but then album sales tumbled. Retailers, musicians, and some music-industry execs thought DRM was the culprit, and they soon joined the chorus of consumers calling for its head. Now consumers are getting their wish, and the music industry will continue to crumble. Giving up control of content and giving it away free are not rational ideas in a market economy, yet everyone's cheering.'" Is the removal of restrictions from our media really that big a deal?
Is the removal of restrictions from our media really that big a deal?
Yes. It just won't send the world spinning in the direction they claim.
If the fold there will be a bigger market for the music of anonymous cowards. I will e-mail you my own, high quality, original compositions - all you have to do is send me your credit card details to my address...
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Fuck. Now you will know who I am. I lose again
I had an MP3 once on my computer. My computer started to crash/reboot continuously and my dog started to howl. The dog howling caused me sleepness nights. My sleepy-ness caused me to have a car accident with a bus full of nuns. The surviving nuns sued me and the dead nuns are waiting for me in heaven with baseball bats. Because of the lawsuit, I lost my home, my computer, AND my dog... I'm living in the streets and I only go into public libraries to use the washrooms and post on slashdot. I am scared of MP3s. (but not frightened to death because then the nuns & bats will get me)
I'll summarize it for you: No DRM = Giving music away for free = Armageddon
Well she shaved her hair, was committed, and many people hate her music, so all she has to do now is gain weight. :)
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
It's simple, really: We need a megalithic music industry because without it, the demand for cocaine would plummet. This would cause organized crime families to need to find another way to make money, which would most likely be kidnapping and harvesting organs from innocent children for sale on the black market. For goodness sake, won't somebody think of the children?!
My truck is like a series of tubes.
Man, if the RIAA goes, the world will explode. It's that simple.
I don't think RIAA and MPAA have realized that the only way to totally stamp out piracy is to produce works no one wants to see or hear. Because if enough people want to see it or hear it, someone will figure out a way to pirate it.
Then again, when I hear the music and see the movies made today, maybe they have figured that out...
"If the CDs [...] or were flat out silent"
Then you'd risk getting sued by the John Cage estate