On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 21:46:00 -0600, thad05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Roy, when will you stop advocating theft of people's music and video
>> creations. "Sharing" is mostly illegal.
>>
>> You want it? Buy it. Simple.
>
>While I agree with the sentiment, I've yet to see a DRM scheme that
>did anything more than inconvenience the user while do almost nothing
>to protect copyrights. A prime example: I bought some audio books on
>I tunes for my trip to Connecticut. Wanted to translate them to MP3
>to play on my portable on the way out, but of course Apple doesn't
>allow that. I had to jump through major hoops to get them into a
>format that was useful. I suppose Apple would like for me to buy an
>iPod to simplify things, but I'm more inclined to just not buy stuff
>from iTunes anymore.
>
>DRM is just a bad business idea.
>
>Thad
I agree with you Thad.
DRM, copy protection etc just hurts the honest user and to date has
been proven to not stop piracy.
IMHO the solution is to offer fair prices for the products and people
will flock them.
Look at The Eagles latest album "Long Road Out Of Eden" which
supposedly cost 5 million dollars to produce. An insane amount BTW.
It's $11.98 at Walmart and they can't keep it on the shelves, partly
because it is an excellent album and also because the cost is
reasonable.
Same thing for Barry Manilow's Xmas album which is $7.99 at Hallmark.
They can't keep the thing in stock because the price is good.
Now compare this to some C_rap CD that cost $18.99 and has maybe one
decent tune on it.
And the RIAA wonders why kids are pirating music?
It's the COST and the LACK OF TALENT in today's music.
Plain and simple.
Of course the RIAA will never admit that.
The same thing goes for software.
Microsoft could easily eliminate MOST piracy by offering Vista for
$49.99 and allowing up to 5 home computers to use the single copy.
But they won't.
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