willyhoops;199260 Wrote: > I know the herd are all against DRM and I wanted to see if reasoned > argument could make any headway against clearly the clearly incorrect > tide. When I talk to people off the street who knows nothing about hard > drive music they can hardly comprehend of life without DRM because it > seems so silly.
I can see some merit to your arguments, but I think there is a very fundamental failing: copyright breach can often be good for the copyright holder. I gave the Microsoft example earlier; the music example is that giving your mates copies often gets them to buy the music. A mate gave me a perfect copy of Sigur Ros's () album a few years ago; I liked it and bought the original, and now have all their CDs. Without that copyright breach, they would not have made any sales to me. To be more precise, your fundamental assumption is that the only asset held by the copyright holder is the right to license their product. However, there is more: the size of the customer base, and how much they are talked about, is also an asset. Piracy increases this asset, which has a subsequent improvement on the revenue stream of the copyright holder. DRM would restrict the value of this asset. Since it is not possible to value any of these assets reliably, then your implicit assumption that the 'right to license' asset is more valuable (or the only one of material value) is flawed. Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
