Comment Authors must be protected from pirates, like wild (Score 1) 419
animals from poachers. But will that save the industry?
In the capitalism, one uses an opportunity to profit, instead of taking oppressive measures to beat money out from people. That is a free market. Digital Rights protection does not correspond to that principle. As a concept, it is dead-born.
70 years ago, the only possibility for a musician to earn money was to give live concerts. Then, technical progress, at some level of its development, has made possible mass-circulating of recorded media, and thus formed the possibility to make enormous money on records. As a result, we have present pop-culture. But now the same technical progress brings circulation and distribution possibilities to new level. In reality, recorded media now can be freely accessible for anyone. Thus, eliminating the previous great possibility to profit from records. Besides, pop-culture now flies in the digital direction. Already now a digital game is much more entertaining than a sound album for the same price, even for adults. What to say about our children! That is why traditional recorded media distribution empire is virtually dead now.
DRM, in that light, is only profitable to software vendors. That is why Microsoft, Apple, etc. are so eager to participate. They are going to profit on record companies, taking share from their profits. To me, it looks like a parasitic activity on the dead body of the record industry.
In the capitalism, one uses an opportunity to profit, instead of taking oppressive measures to beat money out from people. That is a free market. Digital Rights protection does not correspond to that principle. As a concept, it is dead-born.
70 years ago, the only possibility for a musician to earn money was to give live concerts. Then, technical progress, at some level of its development, has made possible mass-circulating of recorded media, and thus formed the possibility to make enormous money on records. As a result, we have present pop-culture. But now the same technical progress brings circulation and distribution possibilities to new level. In reality, recorded media now can be freely accessible for anyone. Thus, eliminating the previous great possibility to profit from records. Besides, pop-culture now flies in the digital direction. Already now a digital game is much more entertaining than a sound album for the same price, even for adults. What to say about our children! That is why traditional recorded media distribution empire is virtually dead now.
DRM, in that light, is only profitable to software vendors. That is why Microsoft, Apple, etc. are so eager to participate. They are going to profit on record companies, taking share from their profits. To me, it looks like a parasitic activity on the dead body of the record industry.
