http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/22112927.php An Indian technology blog with reviews, opinions and more. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/22112927.php/comment-page-1#comment-9843 Frukt talk more crap - blog - James Cridland Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:18:48 +0000 http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/12112927.php/drm-its-evil-and-it-doesnt-work#comment-9843 [...] From my viewpoint - the record industry is currently being advised to: 1. Work out how it can sue and punish its most passionate consumers 2. Discover how it can screw more out of the industry that promotes new music most effectively (that’s radio, incidentally) 3. Find out how it can put those inconvenient internet broadcasters out of business by charging unrealistic charges which make ad-funded broadcasting impossible 4. Disenfranchise the people that actually buy its products by smothering them in badly-executed digital rights management to ensure they cannot even use their legally purchased products in a legal way. [...] [...] From my viewpoint – the record industry is currently being advised to: 1. Work out how it can sue and punish its most passionate consumers 2. Discover how it can screw more out of the industry that promotes new music most effectively (that’s radio, incidentally) 3. Find out how it can put those inconvenient internet broadcasters out of business by charging unrealistic charges which make ad-funded broadcasting impossible 4. Disenfranchise the people that actually buy its products by smothering them in badly-executed digital rights management to ensure they cannot even use their legally purchased products in a legal way. [...]

]]> http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/22112927.php/comment-page-1#comment-417 Joel Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:34:13 +0000 http://www.dailyindia.com/blog/12112927.php/drm-its-evil-and-it-doesnt-work#comment-417 I've of the opinion that the RIAA is a defunct organization and record companies need to be eliminated from the picture. Artists should own their music, no record companies. Artists should earn profits from the sale of their music directly, not accept what record companies give them. Think what AllOfmp3.com is doing is wrong? Playing by their own rules of legitimacy? What about record companies? How legitimate is it that the artist is paid beans while the record companies rake in the cash? If Artists owned their own music, and licensed to Itunes directly, we could see Itunes selling songs for 15 cents, DRM free. People want to buy music legally but $1 a song is too much when you could easily get it for free. I’ve of the opinion that the RIAA is a defunct organization and record companies need to be eliminated from the picture. Artists should own their music, no record companies. Artists should earn profits from the sale of their music directly, not accept what record companies give them. Think what AllOfmp3.com is doing is wrong? Playing by their own rules of legitimacy? What about record companies? How legitimate is it that the artist is paid beans while the record companies rake in the cash? If Artists owned their own music, and licensed to Itunes directly, we could see Itunes selling songs for 15 cents, DRM free. People want to buy music legally but $1 a song is too much when you could easily get it for free.

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