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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?
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You will be missed, and not just by Jake Gyllenhaal's distended butthole
There are many factors at play.
1. The album is dying. People want to buy only the tracks they hear on the radio, not whole albums. This lowers revenue. DRM does not have anything to do with this
2. Piracy over the internet cuts into revenue. CD's don't have DRM, so a high quality source of non-DRM music exists to seed the internet pirates. Putting DRM on online music you sell won't help.
3. People are reluctant to buy online music with DRM, and therefore may turn to piracy. Hear DRM hurts sales.
I think the best solution is to sell DRM-free music and continue the lawsuits and strengthen copyright law to curb piracy using legal means. There is no good technological solution to stopping piracy.
The derivation of a word is not the same as its meaning. For instance, the South African equivalent to "nigger" is "kaffir", an Arabic word roughly akin to "infidel" - yet when Afrikaaners used it, they certainly weren't referring to their darker-skinned countrymen's lack of faith.
Essentially it's wrong to call a black person anything or apply any label whatsoever to the racial group. Even "black person" is considered offensive to some. "African-American" is currently acceptable in the USA, but give it time and I'm sure that will be considered offensive, too. Every so-called pejorative from "nigger" to "colored" has started out harmlessly and without malice intended.
No matter what you call them, it will eventually become offensive. Might as well stick with what you know.
This is a known linguistic phenomena, often called the process of euphemism and dysphemism.
the reasoning behind it is that the euphemised 'hidden' meaning isn't really hidden at all, the speaker is simply avoiding using the label. The meaning that they're attempting to avoid actually becomes associated with the new term through context.
If you think it's a bad thing, the quickest way to avoid it is to quit hatin'
Stupid political correctness. I find it insane that some people would find 'black person' offensive. Like if I was picking someone out in a crowd I'd use hair colour, skin colour, height, whatever, and yet sometimes find myself scared to say 'black person' because of all this political correctness bullshit. It's crazy.. over here (in the UK) schoolteachers aren't allowed to call blackboards blackboards. I have no problem with marker boards being called whiteboards, so why the big deal about blackboards? If I was black I think I'd find it more offensive that someone has taken it upon themselves to 'protect' black people from this abomination of a word, that I doubt would have been offensive to me in the first place. Anyway, rant over. I wish someone would take out those morons that keep doing the "nigger posts" and spank their asses with flaming hot pokers..
which is totally what she said