| People do not buy things they do not want. Has the RIAA/MPAA and huge media conglomerates ever considered that people do not buy MTV garbage such as britney spears, backstreet boys, eminem, and other senseless unskilled awful sounding trash, not because they are pirating it, but because it simply sucks and they do not want to see it? Piracy is not a problem, it is a scapegoat... If britney spears or eminem and all the other crap on MTV ever make less than $1 million dollars a year, or better yet make less than $30k a year like most of HARD WORKING CITIZENS THAT DO MORE WORTHWHILE THINGS, then I will feel sorry for them, but I do not see them ever making less than $1 million dollars despite the fact that only a few idiots like their garbage. Nobody wants these people forced on them. I do not watch MTV, does that make me a pirate for not loving senseless garbage? DRM all you want... it will just hurt everyone else, as even with DRM people that dislike the garbage will not buy it... |
 BulldogXTRMBulldogXTRMPremium
join:2001-09-28
Gonzales, LA | The only problems that I see with the **AA is there "scorched earth" lawsuit frenzies. These organizations are right in their pursuit of preventing illegal downloads of copyrighted material. They're protecting the artists that produce the music. However the companies that produce the music and movies are the ones that really make the money, not the artists. But the artists do make a very good wage. So then you're left with just who is the **AA trying to protect?
DRM is in my opinion a pain in the ass because there still is no standard for distribution or format of a digital file. If I purchase the use of a song should I also be able to listen to that song on my IPod, CD Player, WMA/MP3 player? I don't necessarily think so, but it would be nice. But in contrast if I purchase a VHS I can't watch it on my DVD player unless I either convert the VHS to digital and burn it to DVD or vice versa. This happened with the 8-track, cassette tape to CD transitions and is happening now. People are getting away from using a physical medium and are going digital because it takes up less space.
One of the solutions that I believe may be possible at least for the music industry is an online storage of your purchased music. Once you pay for the use of a song, that song is added to your account. The file is non transferrable and cannot be burned to a CD. If you want a CD then buy it. The file can only be played on the player it was downloaded for. If you don't want the song on your player anymore then you simply delete it. If you decide you want to listen to it again you simply download it back to your player from your online account. If I want a lifetime use of a song then I pay a higher price versus the month to month use of the song or the day to day availability.
Price is the key here, cheaper price means that the song of my choice is available for download for a shorter period and once the period expires it's no longer available unless I pay for it again. Would you pay $0.05 for a 7 day availability, I would. If I really like the song then I pay $1 for six months or $2 for life. The company retains their rights I get the music I want to hear and if I'm not sure if I like the song then I pay for a 7 day availability.
CD's should either be phased completely out of circulation for music (if they want to truly handicap pirates) or remain available for purchase as they are now. If I don't want to buy into the digital online model then I purchase a CD and rip the music on my own computer and purchase a player that will play my files. My files can only be played by me because of a DRM format in which only my players are activated for the files/songs that I've ripped. I still have the use of my purchased music but no one else does. Stealing or trying to circumvent my DRM is useless unless I've shared the files that are traceable back to me with a digital signature which includes my name, address, phone number, SSN. Guess what that means, I don't share my music files because if I do I've just pirated the music and at the same time allowed my personal information to be broadcast over the internet. I may be able to recover from this but I've just cause myself a whole lot of grief.
A coop between hardware manufacturers and the music/movie industry should have the resources to come up with something that is not only agreeable between them and consumers, but also seriously handicap piracy, like I proposed above.
Can all of this be circumvented? Sure. Will it stop piracy, no. I don't believe that anything will ever stop piracy and it is here to stay. If the music/movie industry really wants to stop it and crack down on then make the donations and allocations to law enforcement so that the law enforcement community has the needed resources to track down and apprehend the pirates. The general public has a misconception that law enforcement should just do the job. But fail to realize that it costs a lot of money to keep qualified people on the job. Put the money in the hands of law enforcement to do the job and quit paying the lawyers.
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