At the Digital Hollywood conference, where entertainment industry representatives are meeting to discuss technology and trends in digital content delivery, David Hughes of the RIAA made bold statements about the future of DRM. Despite a clear move toward selling DRM-free music by every major label Hughes, the RIAA's Senior Vice President of Technology, says DRM is far from dead, and even ... [ read the full article ]
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IF it does then watch another MASSIVE increase in pirating again. Fellow file traders will rip their discs like it's going out of style and make available to the world that doesn't deal in DRM B.S.
Originally posted by Mez: mspurloc good one! varnull, even one better. Anyone buying a low quality DRMed tune gets what they deserve. Last week I heard someone compain they bought a few hundred bucks worth of tunes from Microsoft a few years back and that Microsoft was shutting down that DRM server this summer making his tunes unusable. He was complaining about the resorces needed to save his music. I told him the resorces were pentance. Maybe he would be smarter next time. That bozo got what he deserved, trusting Microsoft!.
and sony did it last year with their connect store and it was yahoo the year before that screwed their customers and there is more, Major League Baseball (switched DRM, nuking any video bought pre-2006), Google (killed video store, and any vids you bought), Virgin Digital, closed store, told customers to burn tracks to CDs and re-import as MP3, which is illegal in the UK and in the usa because part of the DMCA is that its illegal to circumvent any DRM. Now sony's anti consumer, orwellion, secuROM (screw ur rom) game DRM is even phoning home to DRM servers but a recent public outcry, got sonys draconian DRM pulled by the game develpoers for both spore and mass effect, just wait to see what happens with blu-ray 2.0 phone home authorisation of movies with their DRM!
they want ppl to stop purchasing single tracks and commit to a subscription service so you can have all the media you want but with a drm time bomb while the riaa use your money to manufacture more britney spears type crap to pollute the airwaves with.
nobrainer, so in a nut shell the companies selling DRM music don't respect the DRMs. I guess they figure their customers are suckers and that they should mop the floor with them. That sounds reasonable to me.
The jackasses don't have a clue! How can you say this
Quote:nearly impossible to make money on digital music without it
and void DRMs?
My guess is it is nearly impossible to make money on digital music with it.
HEHE as an tangable thought, surely if said store shuts down and then tells customer to burn music to CD to re-extract, which is a naughty thing to do.
Surely this also means that the companies who then retracted their drm services leaving customers unable to play their music and having to resort to naught practices were doing something intresting indead...
... and as software/music pirates are now labled under the same hat as a suicide bumber (T3RRORIZTS), doesnt this mean the companies that pulled the drm servers were creating a climate where t3rrorism was the only recourse and in some cases like virgin store they even incouraged people to participate in t3rrorizt actions....
Just another way to look at it... but using that school of though we the general public should ask that :
DRM is dropped as it incites t3rrorisum
RIAA and MPAA should stop using and t3rrorist and illigal tacktics to collect information about people
Oh look at the other t3rrorizum that came from DRM, yes everyones forgotten Sonys system that then spawned the first Rootkit exploit, which is now one of the most comonly use system expliots for t3rrorizt spyware and data mining...
Oh and what about CD prices, the over seas sellers that undercut the price fixing in the UK and other places received fines for selling under value rates.... in any other industry they would have been done for price fixing... but oh no this is the music industry and the companies which broke the price barrier was the bad guys.... maybe it was because these companies started to show us that the CDs could be cheaper and undermined the current price fixing.
Maybe what the music industry needs is an open source record label who make all the music royalty free and a new pricing/funding model.
All music played over the air is funded by advertising so the studio gets paid, the artist would get free advertising and public awareness.
All music sold online is directly by label and fans can pay what they feel is a fair price or no price if they wish.
Some of the money is made for the band/label from playing live gigs, appearances and franchised products.
There is a new chart that is created, where people vote by simple text/phone and have a tiny charge applied for the vote, or alternativly they can submit for free by the website and money for that vote is recovered from advertising. A chart for the people by the people. Then the bands who make say the top 4 - 10 would get a percentage of the money generated by the voting... keep a track at no1 for 4 weeks you get a load of money still :)
Just a though dont flame me, im not saying its a better model or even a possible model... just more a what if....
plazma247, good thoughts. There are endless way to do things better than what the industry is doing. This is actually a social commentary on the world's business. Big business is run by used car salesmen the world over. The corporate leaders got to where they are by being able to lie the most convincinly not by being a good leader. These peckerwoods controll everything!
The music industry is at a distinct disadvantage. They have to compete with forces not controled by morons. That will be their undoing.
