Bassman
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Posted: July 31 2009, 18:43 |
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You are quite right, Prisoner. Piracy will never go away. It will always be a part of the industry as long as organizations try to tell the consumer what they can or cannot do with property they have legally purchased. The RIAA is so misguided and obsolete that they are no longer able to discern the difference between the letter of the law from the intent. Piracy may have come a long way in it's use of technology, but it's essentially no different than a little kid holding a cheapo cassette recorder up to a tiny transistor radio back in the 60's... waiting for his favorite songs to come on. Illegal? No. That kid bought that radio and cassette recorder.
If the RIAA was really interested in making a change, they'd go after the companies that produce the hardware, ie. CD/DVD burners or rewriteable discs, as well as the myriad ripping software that legally exists. Of course, if they tried that, the electronics companies would utterly obliterate them. So their next best target is the consumer. A more vulnerable target, to be sure.
Thanks to good old human ingenuity, any anti-piracy measures encoded into a musical medium will eventually be cracked. As it should be.
I was very heartened when iTunes did away with DRM. It was an encouraging victory for the consumer. It proved that once in a while a company will actually bend to the demands of it's market.
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