HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC, PART 18,459
May. 13th, 2008 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: The Recording Industry Association of America says that DRM – the copy control software that supposedly is the only thing keeping all of you thieving-ass pirate punk kids from ripping all yr CDs and sharing them for free with everyone, thus killing the music industry forever – is alive and well and not going anywhere.
Which is funny since all four major labels have taken so much crap from consumers over DRM that they all now offer DRM-free versions of songs on download services like iTunes and Amazon (albeit for a higher price than the DRM-ed versions).
Turns out the labels are just playing along until they can come up with new ways to sell digital music that are 100% DRMed. Says RIAA technology unit head David Hughes:
"(Recently) I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music and 20 of them still require DRM ... Any form of subscription service or limited play-per-view or advertising offer still requires DRM. So DRM is not dead."
Hughes admits that consumers might not appreciate DRM, but claims they generally don’t mind as long as it doesn’t get in the way of them being able to listen to their tunes and transfer them to new devices. Yeah, well, tell that to anyone who downloaded DRMed songs from the MSN Music Store. Under that model, if you buy DRMed music from someone that later goes out of business and won’t support DRM renewal, all that music you bought is useless. Too bad for you, suckas.
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has just passed HR 4279, a.k.a. the PRO-IP (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property) Act of 2008.
Guess what it does? It gives the RIAA the legal power to send local cops to yr house to confiscate yr computer – even if you settled out of court and paid yr fine. Combine that law (which the RIAA lobbied for) with the RIAA’s ongoing legal position being argued in the courts that you have no legal right to rip a CD even for personal use, and you start to get a sense of just how much the RIAA hates yr goddamn guts.
You know, I think I preferred it when they tricked artists into doing documentaries about how hard it is to make money in the music business.
Little criminals,
This is dF
Which is funny since all four major labels have taken so much crap from consumers over DRM that they all now offer DRM-free versions of songs on download services like iTunes and Amazon (albeit for a higher price than the DRM-ed versions).
Turns out the labels are just playing along until they can come up with new ways to sell digital music that are 100% DRMed. Says RIAA technology unit head David Hughes:
"(Recently) I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music and 20 of them still require DRM ... Any form of subscription service or limited play-per-view or advertising offer still requires DRM. So DRM is not dead."
Hughes admits that consumers might not appreciate DRM, but claims they generally don’t mind as long as it doesn’t get in the way of them being able to listen to their tunes and transfer them to new devices. Yeah, well, tell that to anyone who downloaded DRMed songs from the MSN Music Store. Under that model, if you buy DRMed music from someone that later goes out of business and won’t support DRM renewal, all that music you bought is useless. Too bad for you, suckas.
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has just passed HR 4279, a.k.a. the PRO-IP (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property) Act of 2008.
Guess what it does? It gives the RIAA the legal power to send local cops to yr house to confiscate yr computer – even if you settled out of court and paid yr fine. Combine that law (which the RIAA lobbied for) with the RIAA’s ongoing legal position being argued in the courts that you have no legal right to rip a CD even for personal use, and you start to get a sense of just how much the RIAA hates yr goddamn guts.
You know, I think I preferred it when they tricked artists into doing documentaries about how hard it is to make money in the music business.
Little criminals,
This is dF
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on 2008-05-13 03:46 am (UTC)FUCK THE RIAA!
That is all.