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DRM is dead
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DRM is far from dead. The music industry may be testing the waters in terms of selling music without protection, but DRM is not dead.
Another distribution model being tested by Sony is allowing sonsumers to buy digital music downloads from regular music retailers. Along with this users can choose an album from the artist's back catalogue for free. Right now the choices around are very limited.
There is also a case currently being argued in which the RIAA seems to be saying that the mere act of copying music from a CD to your PC, even if you own the CD, is illegal. If they were to win such a case, who knows what the repurcussions would be.
Blue-Ray, with much stricter DRM than HD-DVD is winning the new format war. And while some may argue that digital downloads are the wave of the future, how much DRM will these downloaded films posses. Many film download systems currently use the WMV format which often requires you to be logged onto the internet so it can verify that your license is still valid.
Game producers often lock down their media so it can't be copied. You're buggered if that R700 disc you just bought gets scratched.
If the music industry wants to revive itself, it is going to have to look carefully at not only how it distributes music, but what it charges for it as well. I think one of the main factors behind the decline of music sales is the ever soaring price of music and, it might only be me who feels this way, a lack of originality.
Another distribution model being tested by Sony is allowing sonsumers to buy digital music downloads from regular music retailers. Along with this users can choose an album from the artist's back catalogue for free. Right now the choices around are very limited.
There is also a case currently being argued in which the RIAA seems to be saying that the mere act of copying music from a CD to your PC, even if you own the CD, is illegal. If they were to win such a case, who knows what the repurcussions would be.
Blue-Ray, with much stricter DRM than HD-DVD is winning the new format war. And while some may argue that digital downloads are the wave of the future, how much DRM will these downloaded films posses. Many film download systems currently use the WMV format which often requires you to be logged onto the internet so it can verify that your license is still valid.
Game producers often lock down their media so it can't be copied. You're buggered if that R700 disc you just bought gets scratched.
If the music industry wants to revive itself, it is going to have to look carefully at not only how it distributes music, but what it charges for it as well. I think one of the main factors behind the decline of music sales is the ever soaring price of music and, it might only be me who feels this way, a lack of originality.
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Besides most CDs? There are plenty of online serivces but with their questionable legitimacy you might as well resort to piracy. Seems the record industry isnt interested in providing a legitimate product.
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Once again, an "unfactual" truth!
Just because Sony decided to sell a few tracks without DRM doesn't mean that DRM is dead. Look at this as taking a break before they comeback with guns blazing, i.e. new lock down methods.
If you think that DRM is dead then what the heck is Blu-ray?
Just because Sony decided to sell a few tracks without DRM doesn't mean that DRM is dead. Look at this as taking a break before they comeback with guns blazing, i.e. new lock down methods.
If you think that DRM is dead then what the heck is Blu-ray?
As the article pointed out Sony is the last of the four big labels to agree to start selling DRM free music - not the first.
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DRM is supporting the pirating. It's completely understandable, paying for a song that has restrictions, or dont pay for a song and it has no restrictions. I've seen legit users result to buying, then downloading the pirate version (they want to own the song and support the music, but they want to play the song anywhere).
Most of us just buy, burn to CD, rip from CD into mp3.
Next big thing? Bands selling over internet cutting out the Companies completely. Cheaper and less restricted music... I believe NIN are doing this already. The even went as far to say:
DRM is dying, but i think the big companies are trying to bring it back in one way or another.
Most of us just buy, burn to CD, rip from CD into mp3.
Next big thing? Bands selling over internet cutting out the Companies completely. Cheaper and less restricted music... I believe NIN are doing this already. The even went as far to say:
DRM is dying, but i think the big companies are trying to bring it back in one way or another.
DRM isn't going away for one reason and reason only: money. There are people who make a living off of these restrictive measures we refer to as DRM. They make people (musicians, producers, filmakers, governments) believe that without DRM they are losing money, that the economy is being placed in jeopardy and that innovation is being stiffled.
I'm sure Beethoven or Shakespear would agree with that last statement. I mean where would their music and writing be were it not for DRM?
Studies have shown for example that it isn't p2p downloading that is erroding music sales, but the fact that people now have other things to spend their money on such as DVD's. But the creators of DRM technology keep tryingto convince us otherwise.
I'm sure Beethoven or Shakespear would agree with that last statement. I mean where would their music and writing be were it not for DRM?
Studies have shown for example that it isn't p2p downloading that is erroding music sales, but the fact that people now have other things to spend their money on such as DVD's. But the creators of DRM technology keep tryingto convince us otherwise.