Your comment about VCRs brings to mind what the movie and television industry thought when VCRs became more mainstream--they saw it as a threat to their industry and tried unsuccessfully to fight people being able to record movies or shows. It backfired, of course, and as it turns out, the movie industry is bigger and better now than it was then.
The music industry is doing the same thing--shooting itself in the foot over the Napster dealings. Ten years from now they'll look back and realize that working with Napster, etc., would have made more sense than fighting them.
(And as an aside--it's a hell of a bigger pain in the neck to copy anything on a G4 with a CD-burner built in than it is to copy stuff on a PC with a CD-RW drive....)
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Your comment about VCRs brings to mind what the movie and television industry thought when VCRs became more mainstream--they saw it as a threat to their industry and tried unsuccessfully to fight people being able to record movies or shows. It backfired, of course, and as it turns out, the movie industry is bigger and better now than it was then.
The music industry is doing the same thing--shooting itself in the foot over the Napster dealings. Ten years from now they'll look back and realize that working with Napster, etc., would have made more sense than fighting them.
(And as an aside--it's a hell of a bigger pain in the neck to copy anything on a G4 with a CD-burner built in than it is to copy stuff on a PC with a CD-RW drive....)