Re: DRM is spreading

[Kimba W. Lion]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:16:56 GMT, mick > wrote:

>At the end of the day, though, how much will DRM help protect against
>music piracy?

You forget the other angle. A LOT of the whole "piracy" nonsense is
nothing more than hype, and copy protection schemes are part of the hype.
(That's why they're all so ridiculous--they aren't really thinking about
this.) The music industry has to keep up the image of how victimized they
are, so they can continue to push for free money from lawmakers (like they
got with "Music" CD-Rs).





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[J. P. Morris]

none wrote:

> I actually sat in on meeting where the use of the cellulose composite
> material for mass record production was seriously considered, around
> '76 or so. Call it what it was, cardboard with a very thin vinyl
> acetate coating. Had horrible sound properties and could only be
> played a dozen times or so before the needle totally destroyed it.
> The reasons behind going with such a crap media was to put a halt to
> cassette recording of records, which was killing record sales.

I don't understand this reasoning. If the record could only be played about
12 times, that would cause a massive upsurge in home taping so you could
actually listen to it several times..

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