sharpy merc
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England | The End of DRM?
It is doomed to failure , and I think some in the music industry know this.
Lets hope today starts a DRM free world.
»news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6516189.stm |
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Kill DRM
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| Just keep recording streaming radio, buying CDs at the mall, and never reward DRM pushers or their infested content with your money. It is the only way to break them. The RIAA is like a dog that shits in the house. Just keep smashing their noses in it until they get the message. |
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grcore
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usa | The reason they are doing this is because its more cost effective to sue pirates than to protect thier interests with DRM.
So, make it easier to pirate and you get to sue more people! |
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sbkansas
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»biz.yahoo.com/ap/070402/britain_···tml?.v=3
From the article: "The record company's deal will allow customers of Apple Inc.'s iTunes store to play downloaded songs by the Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Coldplay and other top-selling artists free of the copying restrictions once imposed by their label."
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OZO
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It's good to know that some big labels begin to abandon DRM.
At the same time it'd be interesting to see reaction from m$ to this movement.
They've just offered new DRM-bloated OS - Vista, explaining that it was required by music industries. So, was it the main reason to deeply embed DRM into the OS (effectively delaying OS release), or did they pursue some another hidden agenda? As you well know - protected (from user) channel to the root of his computer may be used and "misused" for many different purposes... Will they keep DRM or remove it too?
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TK421
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Another point of view...
Apple/EMI DRM deal is a big bad joke
YOU ALL FELL for it, the easiest PR trick in the book, Apple, EMI and DRM. It really saddens me that not a single media outlet or reader picked up on it, they played you like a drum. Bad reader, no cookie. Bad media outlets, no cookie and a beating about the head and neck with a medium sized cod.
What happened? Apple and EMI triumphantly announced that they were removing DRM from Apple tracks for a mere $.30 more, upgradable if you got the old tracks. They are also giving it to you at a higher bit rate, 256Kbps instead of the older 128. Sounds good on the surface.
The problem is they snowed you, there is no removal of anything, this is a completely different product. The older ones remain totally DRM infected, cost the same, and if you bought them, you are just as locked in as you were, unless you tithe more.
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What was accomplished yesterday? Two things, a price rise and delivery of better quality content. Let's not beat around the bush, the price increase of 30 per cent is borderline outrageous, but over five years or so that iTunes has been in existence, it averages six per cent a year. Not hugely bad, but the cost of everything involved other than the Porsches for the content mafiaa's kids has gone down with Moores law, sometimes faster.
The same goes for the content quality. They are so laughably overdue to up this that it is almost embarrassing that they have to hide it so. Still you do get greater quality for the 30 per cent bump up in fees.
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If they did it without the price increase, I would have no problem with the move, and all the press who regurgitated the PR bull without questioning it. If they had dropped the older DRM infected tracks at the same time, I would have no problem with the way the press reported it. If this was anything more than a stealth price hike disguised as user benefit, I would have the same lack of problems.
Instead, Apple has their backs to the wall because of the EU. They are using DRM to distract you, the dumb sheep, and jack up your fees. You are not the beneficiaries here, you are being hit with a baseball bat. Wake up. For those who reported on this without thinking, please don't wake up, you deserve the bat.
Not that I necessarily agree with his rant but it has some merit. Puretracks also announced they are moving toward DRM free MP3's yet it caused almost no stir in the online news. I do not use i-Tunes and never will so it matters little to me other than confirming the inevitable death of DRM restricted music downloads. However, I don't believe Apple/EMI really deserves any congratulations for their apparent change of heart. |
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Shriyash
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PuNe, InDiA | reply to sharpy merc
Free music has never looked so cheap.
»www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03···nalysis/ |
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One would hope for a reduction in technology that cripples systems along with the "protection".
I bought more music when I had WinMX to download full songs of artists that I hadn't heard before, but to didn't want to spend 10-20 on a CD I wouldn't like. Since all the DRM system corruption issues and lawsuits, I have freed myself from the habit of wanting to own any more music legally or otherwise.
Great marketing concept for the industry;
1) Release downloadable music. users love it, get hooked.
2) Start charging for downloadable music, users complain but still pay.
3) 2) works, so cripple downladable music, raise prices. Users complain but still pay.
4) Offer uncrippled versions at higher prices. Users complain but still pay.
Some day, I hope to see Wal-Mart trump the fat-laden distributors and their channels with a "direct to artist" model that will put the coke sniffing payola purveyors out of business.
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