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Digital Rights Restriction
—MicroSoft: Great at screwing everyone
It's late, and I want to go to bed. But, before I do, I think you ought to read this, especially if you plan to buy your kid a media player from MicroSoft this Christmas (or hanaka, etc...)
Don't be fooled, DRM will not stop piracy for one simple reason: those that actually siphon huge profits from media distributors by immitating packaging and dealing to the public will always find a way.
While at one time recorded music was a novelty, the ubiquitousness of it relegates it to a more hearty function: promoting musicians for concert tours. The more I think of recorded music, the more I'm convinced its current purpose shouldn't be to sell copies, but to sell entertainment. With various ways to listen to music — MP3, CD, jukebox, terrestial and sattelite radio, digital music channels on television and streaming internet content — the actual need to purchase music dwindles. People that love a musician (I've always been a David Bowie fan) will go out and buy the hardcopy music with an expectation to be able to play it anywhere. No strings.
I bought all of Bowie's records in vinyl, and again when they came out in superior CD. I even have multiple copies of a few albums: Diamond Dogs in flat vinyl, picture disk, original vinyl bifold album cover, first CD release (with bonus tracks) and specially mastered edition.
Any musician will have no trouble selling packaging to their audience if their music is quality.
Furthermore, a well appreciated talent will always sell tickets if they perform. The Grateful Dead have always allowed "tapers" to record and share their concerts. They always sold out (generating income), and they still sold albums. In fact, I think their studio albums aren't that great — their passion for music being better conveyed by a live performance.
What this means, and how I've read musicians that abuse fans, is people who piss and moan about lost music sales while barely touring are, in fact, lazy bastards.
I work for a living. Every day I toil on my knees (I'm a tile setter) to earn my keep. As should anyone. Muscians that barely tour, yet cry foul over the uncorking of recorded music are really only angry that they've got to work for a living. "Oh my god, you mean I must have some sort of schedule?"
Fuck you! Work for a living!
Ask any band that does it for the love. They tour almost as often as I work, make great money, and have the nice perk called "groupies." As I worry about my knees holding out for a big job, so do singers worry about their voice. Being a musician doesn't automatically entitle you to millions the same as my skill doesn't automatically entitle me to my own business. If I want to make more, I have to work at it.
Now, if you'll excuse me I have to wake early for work.
Any Tile groupies out there?
—Pete
Tags: free speech, liberty, software
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