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. (visit the link for the full news article)
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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)
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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!!!!
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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.
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Originally posted by anachryon
Oh please, oh please let the RIAA be BK.
What does "BK" mean?
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Originally posted by MemoryShock
What does "BK" mean?
Bankrupt.
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BK - Burger King
I think their plan may be to get the ISP's to cooperate with them, to throttle and block downloads.
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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]
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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.
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Originally posted 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.
No, BK = British Knights. Don't you guys remember the shoe commercials?
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