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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

Shouldn't we destroy our out-of-print albums as
possessing such is akin spiritually to bald-faced theft
of potential cd sales?

You're kidding, right?

there's a serious side: In the world of "perfect DRM (Digital Rights
Management)", when a recording is flagged as "out-of-print", or
"unavailable", no one in the entire world will be able to listen to it
again!

Why do fools presume that copyright holders actually want compensation,
when they don't, they want control. They are guilty of "Where There's
Demand, Restrict Supply" method of marketing.

An analog with the brave new world of perfect DRM, is to destroy all
out-of-print, used, or otherwise unavailable recordings everyone has,
because collectors are greedy thieves that want to "own what the
copyright holders do not want you to own".

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