On 2008-04-25, Martha Adams <mhada@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> <Quote>
>> Music fans who purchased music from Microsoft's MSN Music service are
>> in for another cruel awakening about the harsh realities of digital
>> rights management. As of September 1, it will become impossible to
>> reauthorize songs purchased from the MSN Music store, which Microsoft
>> shuttered to make way for Zune.
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/microsoft-pulli.html
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> I think this world seems big enough and rich enough, that when things
> like this 'Digital Restrictions Management' come along, why can't
> people simply decline to purchase such products? The 'criminal'
That's only useful to a point. If the product can't be sold,
the corporations will always rationalize away the real problem and
blame it all on piracy. You need something like iTunes to gain a
foothold and scare the bejesus out of the record labels. It serves
2 very useful functions.
First it demonstrates that people will pay for downloads even
if they can easily get them for free.
It also demonstrates that there are people out there that the
RIAA should fear much more than the customer.
[deletia]
Of course the music industry seems slow to understand these
lessons and the film industry is poised to make the same mistakes.
Make it easy to do the right thing and you will find that
most people are too lazy to bother pirating. Fail to understand
your customer and they will conclude that pirating is the easy
thing to do even if it "wrong".
If you don't make it easy for people to do what they want
to do with your product, they will find what is easy.
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