See, this is just wrong. This stuff really bothers me because it's so
obviously based on greed. They're not even trying to hide this in terms of
intellectual property rights...flat-out greed.
I accept their right to produce a CD however they wish. I do accept
that...but why is this the choice they make? That's my concern here.
from the article:
"The proliferation of commercial-grade CD-recordables and inexpensive CD-R
media has become a major concern to the music labels. We believe that
Safeaudio provides an opportunity for the music industry to regain the
billions of dollars lost to unauthorized casual copying. We are eager to
start our beta trials and to get the technology into the hands of the music
labels for evaluations," commented Macrovision president and COO Bill
Krepick.
So I buy a CD from my local record store and take it home...it's now mine
and I've paid for the right to listen however I wish. Now, with this
software, I can't copy it to my PC because someone ELSE might steal it and
put it on napster and then the record company may lose money because that
person won't buy it retail?
How is the present situation any different than copying something from a
tape 20 years ago...or from the radio...it's a wider forum now, sure, but
conceptually it's the same thing. So you get your free copy from napster, a
website or a friend (i.e. radio circa 1981) and you buy or don't buy based
on that. Napster has changed my buying habits, but I still buy stuff I heard
online that I wouldn't have purchased otherwise...so it works both ways. But
no one cares about that, eh, because only the possible LOSS of money stands
out in everyone's mind.
But Napster is available to a wider audience, therefore it's evil because
these people are "losing" possibly LARGER amounts of money. So something is
only bad if it's bad for a LOT of people? Is that the message we're learning
here? So much for things like objective thought and freedom.
Problems like this only go away when people learn that life isn't about
*maintaining* a certain income, but earning what you make and making what
you earn. Why don't people understand this? Why are record companies exempt
from this sort of morality? Aren't these people human, too? Don't they have
better things to do than worry about whether their company makes $1.50 or
$1.67 extra today?
Money is important. I understand. But so is enjoying life. If your entire
focus is on those 17 extra cents, that's a problem.
---brian
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-----Original Message-----
From: arg [mailto:chris@evilboots.com]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:49 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] macrovision is your friend
for all you folks who now enjoy casually copying cds...
http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?985
this isn't particularly idm related, but since idm comes in cd
flavors, thought some of you might find this interesting reading...
i hate these bastards (as the article mentions, these are the kind folks
who made it impossible, um, well, almost impossible, to loop your
dvd player through your vcr... naturally this is a real pain in the ass
with some tvs, including mine...)
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