grat cuz drm just suxs, i would buy music online buth with norestriccions since now ripping your own stuff is ilegall

DRM stifles innovation,or at the least gives them a excuse not to try, with DRM they can make odd schemes like the time out renting scheme ,one player only scheme , 3$ a song scheme.


what they should focus on is that they have certain artists that might sell well and that thos needs to be spread around at a quarter a shot, see if tis at a quarter a shot you wont care if a few get "sheared" and at a quarter a shot you would sell 100's as many as at 1$ a shot, and without costly and thusly pointless DRM you would save even more.

its simple math people, think about it!

What's DRM? lol

Quote:

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Universal Music Group is already considering setting up a subscription based service of their own that would charge consumers invisibly when they buy portable media players

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Not so invisibly.... all you have to do is look at the new higher price of the players.

In regards to the amount of cash thrown at these pointless drm companies, the answer is yes as its diverting funds that could be used elsewhere but the real killer in innovation is copywrite and patents. i mean 170years on a copywrite is beyond belief, the media corporations are profiteering and killing themselves and they cant even see it, but i suppose their backup plan of sue everyone can be employed for a good while!

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...s-14-years.html

Originally posted by link:

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Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years
According to Pollock's calculations (and his paper [PDF] is full of calculations), this is exactly the opposite result that one would expect from a rational copyright system. Of course, there's no guarantee that copyright law has anything to do with rationality; as Pollock puts it, "the level of protection is not usually determined by a benevolent and rational policy-maker but rather by lobbying." The predictable result has been a steady increase in the period of copyright protection during the twentieth century.

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a video explaining copywrite!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

and a quote from David Berlind:

DRM = C.R.A.P.

content, restriction, annulment, protection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKI_w_VBoTQ



As for Universal Music Group and Sony BMG's plan of "free downloads" is a huge step backwards to propertarian content locked to a single device that you have already paid for in the cost of the hardware, a plan to take down apple so they can drive up and fix prices. interoperability would be what these two companies would be talking about if they actually wanted to give something to the consumer that is worth while not locking it up even tighter than it is already, but that's sony for ya! I think sony's motto is "lock up customers hardware, watch the cash flow"

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They have to come up with a way that lets the user do what they want to do with their own legit product they acquired themselves.