resistance is useless.....
lower priced CDs or continued piracy, it seems....I guess the RIAA will have to make a choice when they wake up....
cd protection is useless
cd protection is useless
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993020
resistance is useless.....
lower priced CDs or continued piracy, it seems....I guess the RIAA will have to make a choice when they wake up....
resistance is useless.....
lower priced CDs or continued piracy, it seems....I guess the RIAA will have to make a choice when they wake up....
sittin' in da mushroom forest, pondering what mushroom ponder....
I don't know about you guys, but I'm quite happy the RIAA can't get their act together. You'd figure that by now (~ 5 yrs in the game) they would have come up with an effective business strategy for the sale of their product. Instead they wallow in their foolish greed. I'm hoping that they continue trying to lobby congress to inact laws to keep their archaic business model afloat. I encourage the RIAA to stay the course!
Meanwhile, millions of people around the world download their favorite music.
I think they keep thinking that the US government gives a sh*t about them. Newsflash RIAA, your not the airline industry.
Meanwhile, millions of people around the world download their favorite music.
I think they keep thinking that the US government gives a sh*t about them. Newsflash RIAA, your not the airline industry.
The new copy protection will be/is DVD-Audio or SACD...sure you can still record the analog signal...but you can't rip either one. (So far anyway..)
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Originally posted by Thorazine
I don't know about you guys, but I'm quite happy the RIAA can't get their act together. You'd figure that by now (~ 5 yrs in the game) they would have come up with an effective business strategy for the sale of their product. Instead they wallow in their foolish greed. I'm hoping that they continue trying to lobby congress to inact laws to keep their archaic business model afloat. I encourage the RIAA to stay the course!
Meanwhile, millions of people around the world download their favorite music.
I think they keep thinking that the US government gives a sh*t about them. Newsflash RIAA, your not the airline industry.
Collectively, the Feds don't give a rat's a** about the RIAA, however the entertainment industry is not without their own, individual pet politicians such as Berman & Hollings who then sponsor legislation such as the DMCA that denies consumer Fair Rights Usage.
A quick check here will tell you how much cash the entertainment industry -and others like them- had to cough up to basically own these illustrious (and I use the term loosely) "leaders," Berman and Hollings.
The United States currently has the *best* government that money can buy.
The unfortunate problem with any copy protection designed for audio and video is playback. There are still plenty of avenues available to "hijack" the signal on it's way to your monitor, speakers, TV or whatever. Sure, the quality will deminish but by how much? Enough for you to hear/see or enough for benchmarking tools to hear/see? No different that the total harmonic distortion from an amp. Sure amp A is rated at 0.00010% versus amp B rated at 0.0010%. But if you brought both home and turned them up, would you really hear the difference? I know I can't.
It doesn't make a bit of difference what encryption/protection they put into place. They know it, I know it and that's why there's Palladium and DRM servers on the horizon. Without the hardware and software on the same page, any protection system is futile.
I'll bet the last buggy whip company in the US was the best damn buggy whip maker that ever did make a buggy whip. However, it made no difference because the business model collasped with the introduction of the automobile.
This business of selling CD's at inflated prices in retail stores is starting to collaspe due to the internet. Why spend $16US or more on a CD that has 3 three songs you like. Just download it for free. Until they wise up, their business will suffer.
Oh and btw. Just to put things into perspective. Don't think that MS or Intel gives a crap about the RIAA either. Palladium and DRM aren't projects designed to "buddy" up to the music industry. They are designed to insititute controls of their choosing. Look at it this way. MS has more money in it's coffers right now than the combined tv, cable and music industries have made over the last 10 years! Scary.
It doesn't make a bit of difference what encryption/protection they put into place. They know it, I know it and that's why there's Palladium and DRM servers on the horizon. Without the hardware and software on the same page, any protection system is futile.
I'll bet the last buggy whip company in the US was the best damn buggy whip maker that ever did make a buggy whip. However, it made no difference because the business model collasped with the introduction of the automobile.
This business of selling CD's at inflated prices in retail stores is starting to collaspe due to the internet. Why spend $16US or more on a CD that has 3 three songs you like. Just download it for free. Until they wise up, their business will suffer.
Oh and btw. Just to put things into perspective. Don't think that MS or Intel gives a crap about the RIAA either. Palladium and DRM aren't projects designed to "buddy" up to the music industry. They are designed to insititute controls of their choosing. Look at it this way. MS has more money in it's coffers right now than the combined tv, cable and music industries have made over the last 10 years! Scary.