DRM may be intended to prevent illegal use of copyright material, but it also prevents LEGAL use. DRM can't coexist with Fair Use. Since Fair Use is legal, I guess DRM has to be illegal.
CD sales went UP when Napster was at its peak. Napster exposed people to music that they would never have heard otherwise. Napster created millions of lifelong fans out of people whose limited CD budgets would never have allowed them to buy, unheard, an offbeat genre or artist. And there is a strange disconnect in the music industry. They say that when you buy music, you don't really OWN it. What you are buying is a license to listen to that performance, and the physical product is merely a carrier to allow you access to the performance. OK, fine. I can accept that. So if I scratch the carrier, shouldn't I be able to get a replacement carrier without paying another license fee? I paid the license fee to listen to Led Zeppelin II when I was 12. And again when I was 16, when my LP wore out. Again when I was 22, when I wanted to hear the music in my car. Again when I was 30, when I wanted to hear it in my CD player. Again when I was 40, when the record industry offered a version that was closer to the original performance (a remaster). And I'll pay it again if it's ever offered in a 24-bit format. That would be the 6th time I'd have paid the license fee to listen to this music, and basically all that's changed is the carrier; the music is essentially the same (and some would argue that the original LP was the best-sounding carrier of all). -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
