I agree with the idea of education, both consumer and inside the business. It's really difficult when business folks look at the art with a sense of monetary entitlement. It hurts artists and music lovers. We all need ways to share music that benefit both the artist and the music lover. DRM is definitely NOT part of the answer. Someone made the comment that iTunes is fair enough and we should live with it. No, that's not good enough. This is capitalism remember? If you accept a little bit of bulls**t now you're asking for a s**tstorm down the line. I once sat in a major label boardroom discussing the idea of doing a web-based video mashup project with some artists from a few different labels. The VP of marketing asked if we could put DRM on our label's portions of the mashup... this is the level of absurdity we're dealing with. Music lovers must be diligent - musicians must be compensated fairly and music lovers must be allowed fair use when it comes to how they access those artists' music.
Here's the thing: I don't want to copy my music, I just want to have the freedom to play that music in whatever type of computer or mp3 player I want. You can stick a record into pretty much any record player and it will work fine, but my iTunes music will stay on my iPod forever.
Circumventing DRM is illegal. It's nice you can crack DRM by various methods but you are still breaking the law doing so. Thus destroying the whole point of "legal music". Just use BitTorrent/eMule if you are going to break the law in the first place.
mrfunktasticOct 4, 2006
had a snarky response to elbeano then realized he was being cheeky... well done elbeano
streetstealthOct 4, 2006Submitter
In the blurb at the side, there's a link to some Myspace music page... I don't see the song there yet though.
astrotrainOct 4, 2006
@dargon** penguin laughing pointing @ rootkit technology **Linux... better, faster, and not 0wn3d by Windows gibberish.
prontoOct 4, 2006
@colincornaby yes your comp can play cassette...just get this : <a class="user" href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/">http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/</a> A Cassette Deck for the PC
lilydustbinOct 4, 2006
I agree with the idea of education, both consumer and inside the business. It's really difficult when business folks look at the art with a sense of monetary entitlement. It hurts artists and music lovers. We all need ways to share music that benefit both the artist and the music lover. DRM is definitely NOT part of the answer. Someone made the comment that iTunes is fair enough and we should live with it. No, that's not good enough. This is capitalism remember? If you accept a little bit of bulls**t now you're asking for a s**tstorm down the line. I once sat in a major label boardroom discussing the idea of doing a web-based video mashup project with some artists from a few different labels. The VP of marketing asked if we could put DRM on our label's portions of the mashup... this is the level of absurdity we're dealing with. Music lovers must be diligent - musicians must be compensated fairly and music lovers must be allowed fair use when it comes to how they access those artists' music.
cdmarcusOct 5, 2006
Here's the thing: I don't want to copy my music, I just want to have the freedom to play that music in whatever type of computer or mp3 player I want. You can stick a record into pretty much any record player and it will work fine, but my iTunes music will stay on my iPod forever.
sirhomerOct 5, 2006
Circumventing DRM is illegal. It's nice you can crack DRM by various methods but you are still breaking the law doing so. Thus destroying the whole point of "legal music". Just use BitTorrent/eMule if you are going to break the law in the first place.
brotherfrancizOct 8, 2006
What?!?! You're blaming China for DRM?Dude, communism is dead mate... take it easy.You can go back to bed and fantasise about Gilles Deleuze now...