On Wed, 16 May 2001, tidepool wrote:
>The way I see it, they will be unable to provide any sort of scheme that
>will prevent people from converting sounds into mp3's or a similar
>compression scheme. As long as the user can hear the end result, they will
>be able to convert the music into a digital file.
The way I see it, record labels are totally redundant right now and
copy protection, especially if it works, will drive them right out
of business by driving people to discover this fact.
Artists get royally screwed by record labels, and mostly (with the
exception of a few really famous ones) can make as much producing
open content. With the internet, they no longer need record labels
for distribution. The labels don't understand this yet, so they're
trying to do copy protection. If they succeed in making themselves
a barrier between the artists and the fans, and there's a way
around the barrier with open-content artists, then both artists
and fans will dump them like a hot rock.
Whenever I see a music executive trying to get copy protection
working, it gives me joy. If they get what they want, and it
works or comes reasonably close, then it will kill them, and
good riddance.
Bear
