Re: [microsound] Digital Rights, Digital Wrongs

[Alex Young <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I read this too, and I don't understand the author's problem. Let's say 
I have one of these phones that works with the iTunes Music Store:

If I buy iTunes music, I can copy it to my other devices.  Therefore, 
if I buy it on my phone, I can copy it to my computer.  If I have music 
on my computer from CDs I own, I can put it on my phone.  You can only 
copy your music to four computers with iTunes Store music, so maybe the 
DRM will enforce this limitation with phones (although it doesn't with 
the iPod.)

What does all this have to do with going from vinyl to CD? No one's 
stopping you from exercising fair use and copying your existing CDs.  
Why would you buy music digitally you already have on CD? Why is this 
author typically sensationalist?

DRM is a dirty word, thanks to the arcane proposals of companies like 
Microsoft over the last few years.  It's interesting that some services 
like Bleep.com, who sell copyrighted music, don't use DRM.  Perhaps 
Warp can guarantee sales because their market isn't based on impulse 
purchases.

Any thoughts?

On 28 Jul 2004, at 05:05, Phil Thomson wrote:
> Keywords: Apple; Motorola; Digital Rights Management; technology, 
> capitalism and the music industry
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/27/drm_multisale_magic/
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