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Originally Posted by KingDaddyO  they are acting very much like the auto industry did, in the pre-Japanese invasion era, where the big three also ignored their customers 'wants' for a long time |
gotcha daddy. give the customer what they want otherwise somebody will eventually come along who will. true, and thats exactly what steve jobs did.
i dunno if giving non-drm is wise though, after all its not like getting free refills on your coke, its giving everyone in the whole world a refill on one guys coke. after all, what customers of any business don't want something for free? none i have ever encountered in any industry.
to respond to the person who wants to shut P2Ps down, it will never happen. Morally it seems justifiable, but legally it seems like a scant proposition. You know what was the funniest to me though? Remember Kazaa Lite? Kazaa was basically spyware, and somebody ripped off Kazaa's code and pulled out the spyware and gave it away for free. Ironically, i don't think it lasted because no one donated to supported it. So much irony going around - ripping-off the rip-off enablers and getting no support from the stealers. There is no honor among thieves.
But you always keep fighting it, the retail industry loses $10 billion on shoplifting, and $15 billion on employee theft. Spending "only" several billion per year on theft protection yeilds a good return. You don't give up on it.
What EMI is doing i have no idea. I need to talk to someone at EMI and figure out how an indsutry survives essentially *promoting* free cokes to the world from one chap that buys a coke.
What other participants do that in industry that expects to survive on a purchased music business model? One has to assume the numbers they crunched about how many people buy vs steal/download will completely change in a non-drm world. How can it not change, if it is essentially condoned by the labels? And don't get me wrong, i don't buy steve jobs logic - i think purchased cd's should be copy protected just like dvd's. Why doesn't every software owner demand that they get free installs on every computer they own, let alone every one in the world? At some point you have to draw the line and let the lawyers take over on property rights or you just wipe out an entire industry because of petty theft.
Oh, and for my last point of IRONY: even steve jobs isn't stupid enough to remove hardware dongle protection from Logic Pro.