willyhoops;198844 Wrote: > Of course the answer is that although in general hard drive storage of > music dramatically increases ones appetite for music, CD sales are > down because of increasing piracy. So we're told by the record labels, but I don't think there's been much evidence shown for that.
willyhoops;198844 Wrote: > So I think the record companies need to > > (a) Create a new DRM standard that is truly platform independent and > that customers feel safe with eg using a SIM card. If the customer > looses his sim and his hard drive, he must be able to get another and > download the music again. And would I have to buy a new SIM card for every device I wanted to listen on? My laptop, my SqueezeBox, my portable music player? And what happens when a record company goes out of business and will no longer supply me with a replacement SIM? What if it refuses to sell me a replacement because it doesn't believe I've lost the old one? What if I tire of an album and want to sell it to somebody else? I don't think it's possible to create a platform independent DRM standard without locking down the hardware (Palladium, "Trusted Computing" and all that). willyhoops;198844 Wrote: > (b) Make sure the audio is at least CD quality and possibly even better > (eg 24bit). > > (c) Fill the new standard with text and images eg the words of every > song, at least a pic for each track etc etc. High quality and good metadata (including lyrics and artwork): agreed. willyhoops;198844 Wrote: > (d) Create a new HDCP equivalent path for digital audio connectors to > protect the content from piracy. Determined "pirates" will just capture the analogue signal and re-encode it to MP3. The majority of people who want to copy music without paying for it will be quite happy with that. Meanwhile, the rest of us have to buy new hardware to use these new connectors. Garage start-ups (like SlimDevices) will likely not be able to support the new connectors with first-gen products when licensing agreements and fees start to get in the way. willyhoops;198844 Wrote: > (e) Push Governments to support their efforts by making encryption > breaking tools illegal. I strongly disagree that record companies have such inalienable rights to their business model that (more) over-general legislation should be introduced to artificially protect it. There are lots of reasons one would want to break encryption; why stop all of them just to deal with this one problem, which is already illegal? Actually, when I read this item I started to wonder if this whole post was satirical (maybe it is). It's already illegal to violate copyright by distributing, say, a copy of a Beatles CD. Who's going to worry about that encryption-cracking prohibition if they're already breaking the law? Answering my own question: people will worry if the penalty for one is made higher than the other. Of course, the DMCA in the US already does this: it's illegal to bypass a copy-protection mechanism, even if you're doing so to exercise fair use rights. It adds more penalties to selling knocked-off DVDs, but also prevents a lot of people doing things they would otherwise be able to do. Anecdotally: I buy CDs. I like having a physical copy of an album, as a back-up and an actual thing to look at, and I can use it in actual CD players. I would buy music online if it were high quality and in an open format that isn't tied into any specific device (and have indeed bought a few titles like that, when they've been available in no other way) -- and if it's competing with a CD, it will have to be a lot cheaper. I wouldn't buy DRM-laden music because I'd have no guarantee that I'd be able to play it tomorrow. Adding DRM to a download will turn me off of it, and will (IMO) make no difference to "piracy". -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928
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