Fronkman
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| reply to BF69
Re: DRM makes paying for something worthless.
said by BF69  :Just to play Devil's Advocate. Say someone back in the 60's bought a Rolling Stones album. In the 70's when the 8 track of that same album came out he should have gotten that for free, then when the early 80's when cassette came out he should have gotten that for free too. Then when the CD came out in the late 80's that of course should be free too... that isn't really the point being argued. i would certainly not expect the record company to give me MP3 versions of albums i owned in CD or cassette format.
what is being argued is that music you buy TODAY is severely restricted in what you can do with it. to use your analogy: say in the '80s you bought the latest bon jovi cassette tape. if there was the same kind of DRM back then as we have now, you would have to buy one tape for the car, one tape for the walkman, one tape for the hifi, one for the boombox...etc.
the record companies want to tell me that i cant burn an MP3 I just paid for to a CD so that i can listen to it in my car. (i know itunes allows this, but the restrictions keep getting tighter and I am sure the record companies want to completely remove that burn button) they want all music platforms to be constantly connected to the internet and sending data back to their computers to make sure i am not doing something fishy with the file.
in other words, the record company assumes that any song you burn to play outside of their "monitored media player" is going to be copied and distributed to as many people as possible (ie pirated). talk about an anti-consumer attitude. this is further exemplified by the movie studios that put that "stealing movies is a crime" bit at the begining of the DVD. I just PAID $15 for the stinking movie, why do i have to be accused of a piracy when I obviously just bought the disc?
in regard to those who say "vote with your wallet," this is very hard. unless you are totally dedicated to only supporting truly independent bands (those without a recording contract) or you don't mind pirating every single piece of media you consume, you will soon be stuck only listening to public domain recordings of sousa marches and reading shakespeare.
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