That's what I'm trying to say (I think). The industries can't eliminate "backwards-compatibility" because your wife and mom wouldn't understand why they have to update their computer to do stuff they used to be able to do. My parents still use a Performa 6000 (my 8th Christmas present), and we've used it to play music CDs before. If they had any interest in playing CDs on it, and couldn't now, they'd be annoyed at someone - and they vote/donate money. While I doubt that my parents and the people they symbolize would swing an election based on this, it'd still be a factor to the government and the **AAs.
For the record, they also have a iMac G3, but they do often use the old computer.
See, here's my thing with all the new tech. If I can rip/burn now, if I just buy a computer now, and don't connect to the internet, it'll have good enough software/hardware while avoiding the new flags, right? I can download legally on another computer, and then crossload to the isolated computer, and rip/burn there, and it won't recognize the flags. CDs are easier. I just pop them into the "old computer" and I'm good to go.
The problem for the whole "forced upgrade" thing is that it'll tick off people who aren't geeks. People like my parents can barely do email, but if they ever find out that the government is forcing them to upgrade in order to listen to CDs or watch movies on their computer, they'll get pretty mad. And they are symbolic of a large group of adults who are not in high-tech-heavy jobs, but are still middle class.
So it'd take something like 3 years for the natural upgrade cycle to make it safe for the RIAA and MPAA to eliminate backwards-compatibility.
Also, on the topic of 1 to 1 pipping, there are probably only 3 songs on a CD that people are going to really want to share, so you only need about 20 minutes at most a CD, which is still a lot, but not insurmountable.
Not that I'm advocating this. I just use iTMS most of the time.
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That's what I'm trying to say (I think). The industries can't eliminate "backwards-compatibility" because your wife and mom wouldn't understand why they have to update their computer to do stuff they used to be able to do. My parents still use a Performa 6000 (my 8th Christmas present), and we've used it to play music CDs before. If they had any interest in playing CDs on it, and couldn't now, they'd be annoyed at someone - and they vote/donate money. While I doubt that my parents and the people they symbolize would swing an election based on this, it'd still be a factor to the government and the **AAs.
For the record, they also have a iMac G3, but they do often use the old computer.
See, here's my thing with all the new tech. If I can rip/burn now, if I just buy a computer now, and don't connect to the internet, it'll have good enough software/hardware while avoiding the new flags, right? I can download legally on another computer, and then crossload to the isolated computer, and rip/burn there, and it won't recognize the flags. CDs are easier. I just pop them into the "old computer" and I'm good to go. The problem for the whole "forced upgrade" thing is that it'll tick off people who aren't geeks. People like my parents can barely do email, but if they ever find out that the government is forcing them to upgrade in order to listen to CDs or watch movies on their computer, they'll get pretty mad. And they are symbolic of a large group of adults who are not in high-tech-heavy jobs, but are still middle class. So it'd take something like 3 years for the natural upgrade cycle to make it safe for the RIAA and MPAA to eliminate backwards-compatibility. Also, on the topic of 1 to 1 pipping, there are probably only 3 songs on a CD that people are going to really want to share, so you only need about 20 minutes at most a CD, which is still a lot, but not insurmountable. Not that I'm advocating this. I just use iTMS most of the time.