Diamond spins off Rio

mykey2k writes "This story tells that Diamond is going to spin off Rio as a new company and the new Rio will have anti-piracy built-in. "

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Sounds like AudioDIVX

[Rocket Boy]

From the site...

Enable pass-along distribution between fans, know who they are, and get paid by new listeners.
Create powerful merchandising, promotion, direct response marketing, and affinity groups.
Receive timely financial payments and usage information for your music.
Enable your MP3 player for rights management.
Support and respect music label policies.

And now let's see Divx's "Features"

Enable pass-along distribution between fans, know who they are, and get paid by new listeners.
Receive timely financial payments and usage information for your movies.
Enable your DIVX player for rights management.
Support and respect movie studio policies. (Moratoriums...)

Hmm...

Re:Anti piracy? How?

[substrate]

Whether they hate the RIAA or not really isn't an issue. As one poster pointed out portable MP3 players won't really take off till Joe Average has access to bandwidth. I'd amend that with they won't take off till Joe Average has convenient access to music. One way to get this music is by downloading it as a lot of us do now. Another way would be if you could go to a music store and upload it from their server. This is where Joe Average normally gets his music. Getting downloadable digital media into record stores across the country would be a big win for RIO. This won't happen unless record companies feel secure in releasing mainstream music through this means. Anti-piracy measures would be one means to help this.

The Sony Walkman succeeded because it was a portable device that enabled the user to listen to music of their choosing, and their was a wide range of music readily available. Of course a lot of this music wasn't bought and payed for, this annoys the RIAA. Now they've got a jihad against anything that is capable of recording or deploying user recorded music. It's dumb and pointless, but its there, witness the backlash against CD recorders etc.

If RIO is smart they'll make sure it can still play ordinary MP3. If not they'll be in the running for the shortest time from IPO to Chapter 11 protection. Let the RIAA bandwagon deploy music in their protected format, which Joe Average will eat up, but make sure that the device is happy playing regular MP3.

Also make sure that any competing company can build compatible players for a reasonable fee, otherwise you'll have a format fight which will kill the technology.

Piracy controls?

[Anonymous Coward]

Then I guess I'd either buy a Rio now or get something else. That's the whole point of MP3 as far as I'm concerned - there is no way I will continue to pay $17+ per CD new - and nearly that much used nowadays - as long as I can find the songs on the 'net or borrow a CD from a friend and rip/encode it.

If the recording industry drops CD prices to a reasonable amount (reasonable in my case being around $8) instead of increasing CD prices as they have done over the last year or so, even beyond the prices at which they originally debuted and I will start buying CDs again.

Until then, call me a music pirate and proud of it.

Hopefully new artists will embrace MP3 and we can forget that there was ever a bloodsucking recording industry to begin with. Use the same techniques as the Open Source Software movement - give away the songs for free to get people's attention so you can sell things like merchandise and concert tickets. (Since the bands make next-to-zero on albums anyway, it shouldn't make that much difference to their bottom line and at least this way they can try to get a larger cut of the merchandise/concert profits since there's no record company to siphon away 95% right off the top.)