On 3 April 2010 13:49, Peter Washington <pugwash1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 1 April 2010 17:36, Terry Coles <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 Apr 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > >> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:09:58 +0100, Terry Coles < > d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> > >> wrote: > >> > people who illegally download buy more music legally than those > whodon't. > >> > >> *clearly* those people would spend even more if they weren't downloading > >> illegally. > > > > I'm not sure if you left out the sarcasm tags or whether you really > believe > > that. The theory is that illegal downloading is like payola without the > > bribes; people download music to see if they like it, they then go out to > buy > > the music when they've selected what they want from all the ones that > they've > > downloaded. People who don't illegally download on the other hand, are > more > > cautious when buying because they don't know if they will like the music > or > > not. > > > > If the theory is correct, then I would say that it's the modern > equivalent of > > going into the local record shop and asking them to play a record before > you > > buy it. > > That sounds about right to me Terry, so surely the solution for the > music industry is obvious ... "Time Limited Downloads". > > By this I mean a new file format that plays an embedded MP3, (or > whatever), and kills / cripples itself after a pre-defined time, say a > day or a week. If the user goes on to buy the item online, it should > be possible to detect somehow that they had downloaded the Time > Limited version and they could be given a discount on the full version > as a reward for being legitimate. > > That would provide exactly the style of "Try before you Buy" that the > theory says is happening, and would provide a whole host of new sales > opportunities for the industry to boot ! > > Thats essentially what DRM is. As it's already been proven, it is entirely ineffective. However, if they were free, time limited full songs would be a nice way of doing publicity and try before you buy. It will never happen though because the DRM will be broken and everyone knows this. -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
