Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And here we go again...
When audio tape decks became popular, VCR's, the **AA claimed that it would destroy their business. In fact, the RIAA was successful in making sure that the DAT (Digital Audio Tape) standard never made it to the consumer level.
While the argument here is the same as DAT, "but people can now make 'perfect' copies..." I think it still falls through overall. Why? Because there just isn't enough time!
It's obvious, to me anyway, that the Recording Industry targets the exact same market segment that has the most time & energy to spend making copies in the first place. (14-24 yr olds) Once you've passed the target demographic, the recording industry could just about care less what type of music you're interested in. Yet they want laws passed that will affect everyone!
From the perspective of someone who is past the "target demographic" I see this attempt at curtailing the habits of one group of people by passing laws that affect ALL people as unconscionable.
Most people over 24 or so will go buy music/dvd's rather than rip/burn them simply because there isn't enough time! Yet these same people are virtually ignored by the recording industry.
I don't think legislation is the answer. I don't see any reason for an industry who has a narrowly targeted demographic to get legislation passed to help it remain focused on that narrowly targeted demographic while the rest of the world/economy changes around it.
I don't see why people outside the recording industries narrowly targeted demographic should have to suffer at the result of sweeping legislation.
More and more, it seems to me that the **AA is crying for the tech sector to "Do something so we don't have to change our business model!"
Why should they?
There are (supposedly) thousands of out-of-work techs from the dotcom demise. There is NOTHING that prevents the recording companies from hiring some of these people to develop technology for them.
So what does it come down to? Here are my thoughts:
Open the vaults. People will pay for access to music, as long as you make the right music available. Value added services like lyrics, charts, sheet music, etc. can place paid services as a more valuable alternative than pirated music.
Target a wider audience. While this could potentially kill the market in "rare and hard to find" vinyl & CD's it IS a viable way to make $$.
Make sharing easy. If I recall, CD sales went UP while Napster was thriving. I wonder what the ACTUAL piracy losses would be if you subtract out the sharing/trading of tracks that individual WOULDN'T BUY ANYWAY.
So if I listen to a Led Zeppelin song, and then memorize the drum part, aren't the brain cells that store that drum part an illegal copy of the music?
I'll be expecting a nasty letter from the RIAA thought police any day now...
I enjoyed this book immensely when I read it in the early 90's It has a great history of computing from its origin up to the mid 1980's, as well as biographical information on some of the developers and contributors to what we now call computing. There is a revised edition available from MIT PRESS (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026268 1153) or, an online version at http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/
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Where did you find that out? Or can you point me to where (or who) I would request permission from?
Wow. Another response lacking any hard information. What a complete surprise.
> Perhaps it is time to review some basic physics.
And electrodynamics. Remember Faraday? Maxwell?
> Wikipedia is your friend.
My friends have names like Andrea, and Jessica, and Bob. Maybe you should get out more.
Seriously, can anyone answer the question?
For the previous response:
http://thunderbolts.info/
Can anyone point me to some info on WHY the electric universe people are kooks?
Lately I find some of the EU theories easier to accept than "majick" dark matter, dark energy, and magnetic fields with no electric current.
"Magnetic reconnection" really?
Better hope other theoretical and imaginary lines don't start acting up!
When audio tape decks became popular, VCR's, the **AA claimed that it would destroy their business. In fact, the RIAA was successful in making sure that the DAT (Digital Audio Tape) standard never made it to the consumer level.
While the argument here is the same as DAT, "but people can now make 'perfect' copies..." I think it still falls through overall. Why? Because there just isn't enough time!
It's obvious, to me anyway, that the Recording Industry targets the exact same market segment that has the most time & energy to spend making copies in the first place. (14-24 yr olds) Once you've passed the target demographic, the recording industry could just about care less what type of music you're interested in. Yet they want laws passed that will affect everyone!
From the perspective of someone who is past the "target demographic" I see this attempt at curtailing the habits of one group of people by passing laws that affect ALL people as unconscionable.
Most people over 24 or so will go buy music/dvd's rather than rip/burn them simply because there isn't enough time! Yet these same people are virtually ignored by the recording industry.
I don't think legislation is the answer. I don't see any reason for an industry who has a narrowly targeted demographic to get legislation passed to help it remain focused on that narrowly targeted demographic while the rest of the world/economy changes around it.
I don't see why people outside the recording industries narrowly targeted demographic should have to suffer at the result of sweeping legislation.
More and more, it seems to me that the **AA is crying for the tech sector to "Do something so we don't have to change our business model!"
Why should they?
There are (supposedly) thousands of out-of-work techs from the dotcom demise. There is NOTHING that prevents the recording companies from hiring some of these people to develop technology for them.
So what does it come down to? Here are my thoughts:
So if I listen to a Led Zeppelin song, and then memorize the drum part, aren't the brain cells that store that drum part an illegal copy of the music? I'll be expecting a nasty letter from the RIAA thought police any day now...
I enjoyed this book immensely when I read it in the early 90's It has a great history of computing from its origin up to the mid 1980's, as well as biographical information on some of the developers and contributors to what we now call computing. There is a revised edition available from MIT PRESS (http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026268 1153) or, an online version at http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/