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Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download
Medieval Cow writes "Sir Paul McCartney has a side project called The Fireman and he's just released their new album, Electric Arguments, as a digital download. Why this is of interest to this community is that he released it 100% DRM-free. You can purchase just the digital files, or if you purchase a physical CD or vinyl copy, you are also given access to the digital download. Not only that, but the download is available in 320-kbps MP3, Apple Lossless, or even FLAC format. If you're interested in trying before you buy, you can listen to the entire album in a Flash player on the main page of the site. It's so nice to see a big musician who gets it. Bravo, Sir Paul!"
Because he's made hundreds of millions of dollars using the old system now it's painlessly easy for him to be relaxed and enlightened denouncing the system that gave him the lavish lifestyle he now enjoys.
Any artist who would be on the streets through lost revenue in his/her sale and fears it should simply not be trying to earn a living through music.
You are supposed to make music because you like to do it, not as a full-time job. The multi-millionaires rock stars didn't exist before the invention of disc records and probably won't exist after that. That was more of an accident. Artists don't have a right to make money from their art, it just happened to work well. I don't have the right to listen freely to their music, it just happens to work well.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
You are supposed to make music because you like to do it, not as a full-time job.
Stallman is that you? Are you serious?
Are you an asshole? Are you serious?
Stallman wrote: "Some people write useful software for the pleasure of writing it or for admiration and love; but if we want more software than those people write, we need to raise funds."
When information is power, privacy is freedom.