There has been a music DVD standard for years, it's never really been implemented because they didn't think the average person would buy a music DVD player. If CDs (or CD like disks) don't play in your CD player/DVD player/computer, then suddenly shelling out $150 for that low end music DVD player sounds like a reasonable idea. Especially since most new computers are coming with DVD players so those disks will work there too. Also you don't need to buy one if your current DVD player is connected to your stereo. The extra storage allows for better quality (24 vs. 16 bit I think, and much larger sample rates) as well as surround sound. Any law preventing the record companies from copy protecting CDs, would have a hard time in court for music DVDs since the DVD standard has always involved encryption. Making CD copy protection illegal just gives the RIAA that much more reason to make the jump. I think the reason there was no big outcry when DVDs came out is that people like to have music playing while they work but they don't watch movies there (most of us anyway).
in the argument "I pay my ISP so I shouldn't have to pay for content" is that the content provider pays their ISP too. If your homepage is entertaining and becomes popular, you'll be looking for a way to pay the bandwidth cost. I as a web site owner can't keep you from coming to my site if I don't want to pay for the bandwith. Wanting all content to be free forever pushes out the small players since any bit of popularity pushes them out of the affordable hobby range. How much would you pay a month just to get an inbox full of e-mails swearing at you since you didn't update for a week (off working for a living or something)?
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There has been a music DVD standard for years, it's never really been implemented because they didn't think the average person would buy a music DVD player. If CDs (or CD like disks) don't play in your CD player/DVD player/computer, then suddenly shelling out $150 for that low end music DVD player sounds like a reasonable idea. Especially since most new computers are coming with DVD players so those disks will work there too. Also you don't need to buy one if your current DVD player is connected to your stereo. The extra storage allows for better quality (24 vs. 16 bit I think, and much larger sample rates) as well as surround sound. Any law preventing the record companies from copy protecting CDs, would have a hard time in court for music DVDs since the DVD standard has always involved encryption. Making CD copy protection illegal just gives the RIAA that much more reason to make the jump. I think the reason there was no big outcry when DVDs came out is that people like to have music playing while they work but they don't watch movies there (most of us anyway).
in the argument "I pay my ISP so I shouldn't have to pay for content" is that the content provider pays their ISP too. If your homepage is entertaining and becomes popular, you'll be looking for a way to pay the bandwidth cost. I as a web site owner can't keep you from coming to my site if I don't want to pay for the bandwith. Wanting all content to be free forever pushes out the small players since any bit of popularity pushes them out of the affordable hobby range. How much would you pay a month just to get an inbox full of e-mails swearing at you since you didn't update for a week (off working for a living or something)?