Re: [microsound] Digital Rights, Digital Wrongs

[Alex Young <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Jul 2004, at 15:52, john saylor wrote:
> hi
>
> ( 04.07.28 11:45 +0100 ) Alex Young:
> > What does all this have to do with going from vinyl to CD?
>
> the music industry wants to sell you music files with DRM credentials 
> to
> replace your existing music files. that way, they have more control 
> [er-
> revenue] over what you can listen to in a player that rejects files 
> that
> have invalid or missing DRM credentials.

Yes, in theory, but I think the DRM/fair use mix Apple have will go down
well enough and never lead to that kind of evil scenario.

I suspect services like iTMS that encourage impulse purchases
(like singles sales used to be) and use simple DRM to discourage casual
piracy will become the most popular.

> i think the real issue is not the technical one, but the economic one:
> how does the current music industry make money off of digital music?
>
> my opinion is that the new networked music economy is much better for
> music and musicians than the old. [but with much less money coming in]

As an off-shoot, there's a niche for "non-networked music" :)

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