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Topic started on 7-1-2009 @ 06:46 PM by die_another_day

World's big four music companies run up white flag to digital pirates

business.theage.co m.au

From today the four big labels, EMI, Warner, Sony Music and Universal, will lift digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on 8 million songs available through Apple's iTunes Music Store. By the end of March DRM in the iTunes Store will be gone from all 10 million songs in the library. What this means for the music companies' prosecutions of music pirates is unclear, but experts in the recorded music business have seen an end to DRM as inevitable and sensible.

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reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 06:46 PM by die_another_day

Prosecution of students and others downloading popular music from peer-to-peer websites such as Limewire, Gnutella and other successors to Napster and Kazaa, has been expensive and has failed to even slightly dent the illegal activity.

Now what... expand this to movies and games?

But yeh, screw DRM and the music industry.

business.theage.co m.au
(visit the link for the full news article)

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 06:50 PM by RFBurns

Probably this is just a lure so that they slap a new tracking type DRM code into the files so that way when all these un-suspecting downloaders start fillling up their HD's and igadgets with these files, it renders them inoperable or they suddenly recieve a bill or charge on their accounts.

Imagine..had none of this occured..the pirating of copyrighted material 15 years ago, there wouldnt be all this DRM junk and high prices and fees for legal use of copyrighted material.

Reap what ye has sown, for it is thy own bed to lie in.

Cheers!!!!

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:08 PM by anachryon

They probably can't afford all the lawsuits at this point. What with the economy like it is, it's a pretty certain bet that there have been WAY fewer CDs and such purchased in recent months.

Oh please, oh please let the RIAA be BK.

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:17 PM by MemoryShock

Originally posted by anachryon
Oh please, oh please let the RIAA be BK.

What does "BK" mean?

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:23 PM by anachryon

Originally posted by MemoryShock
What does "BK" mean?

Bankrupt.

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:25 PM by Toadmund

BK - Burger King
I think their plan may be to get the ISP's to cooperate with them, to throttle and block downloads.

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:39 PM by cognoscente

reply to post by Toadmund

Because obviously the uninhibited downloading of certain music genres discourages the consumption of dem homestyle grillers...

[edit on 7-1-2009 by cognoscente]

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 07:43 PM by redled

The record companies want total control. That is a clue. We need people to get rid of the right rider that is the record company, Congratulations pirates, the record companies betray their followers on the high seas. Throats cut, not by the poor, rather the executives of EMI. Most of them like Max Moseley are not that closet Fascist Nazis.

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 08:28 PM by truthquest