Privacy issues aside, when you plug an ipod into another computer itunes prompts if you would like to transfer authorized itunes music store purchases from the ipod onto the computer. With the DRM-free music, there would be no way to differentiate between purchased music and ripped music. My roommate and I were wondering the other day how apple would make this distinction, and aside from not allowing transfering the DRM-free tracks, this is the only solution. I'm sure statistics will be collected all the same, but I do think the information has a legitimate, non-malicous reason for being stuck in the files.
Suppose that the following statement (as the paper concludes) is true: there is no statistically significant correlation between downloads and sales.
If we assume that incompetence is not a valid explanation, what possible reason does the RIAA have for so aggressively going after illicit downloads of music?
I do not believe your stance is a well-reasoned one, and the so called "rhetoric of the left" may have a more logical foundation than you are acknowledging. I am not an expert, but I would like to point out that there is strong empirical evidence to suggest that guns stolen from law-abiding households are a significant source of guns for criminals, and crime rates increase with the availability of stolen guns.
All I'm saying is that everyone is subject to the certain external costs of private gun ownership, kind of like second hand smoke. There are ways to fix this, gun bans are one (evidently very unpopular) solution, but there are others.
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Privacy issues aside, when you plug an ipod into another computer itunes prompts if you would like to transfer authorized itunes music store purchases from the ipod onto the computer. With the DRM-free music, there would be no way to differentiate between purchased music and ripped music. My roommate and I were wondering the other day how apple would make this distinction, and aside from not allowing transfering the DRM-free tracks, this is the only solution. I'm sure statistics will be collected all the same, but I do think the information has a legitimate, non-malicous reason for being stuck in the files.
Suppose that the following statement (as the paper concludes) is true: there is no statistically significant correlation between downloads and sales. If we assume that incompetence is not a valid explanation, what possible reason does the RIAA have for so aggressively going after illicit downloads of music?
I do not believe your stance is a well-reasoned one, and the so called "rhetoric of the left" may have a more logical foundation than you are acknowledging. I am not an expert, but I would like to point out that there is strong empirical evidence to suggest that guns stolen from law-abiding households are a significant source of guns for criminals, and crime rates increase with the availability of stolen guns.
All I'm saying is that everyone is subject to the certain external costs of private gun ownership, kind of like second hand smoke. There are ways to fix this, gun bans are one (evidently very unpopular) solution, but there are others.