HEHE as an tangable thought, surely if said store shuts down and then tells customer to burn music to
CD to re-extract, which is a naughty thing to do.
Surely this also means that the companies who then retracted their
drm services leaving customers unable to play their music and having to resort to naught practices were doing something intresting indead...
... and as software/music pirates are now labled under the same hat as a suicide bumber (T3RRORIZTS), doesnt this mean the companies that pulled the
drm servers were creating a climate where t3rrorism was the only recourse and in some cases like virgin store they even incouraged people to participate in t3rrorizt actions....
Just another way to look at it... but using that school of though we the general public should ask that :
DRM is dropped as it incites t3rrorisum
RIAA and
MPAA should stop using and t3rrorist and illigal tacktics to collect information about people
Oh look at the other t3rrorizum that came from DRM, yes everyones forgotten Sonys system that then spawned the first Rootkit exploit, which is now one of the most comonly use system expliots for t3rrorizt spyware and data mining...
Oh and what about CD prices, the over seas sellers that undercut the price fixing in the UK and other places received fines for selling under value rates.... in any other industry they would have been done for price fixing... but oh no this is the music industry and the companies which broke the price barrier was the bad guys.... maybe it was because these companies started to show us that the CDs could be cheaper and undermined the current price fixing.
Maybe what the music industry needs is an open source record label who make all the music royalty free and a new pricing/funding model.
All music played
over the air is funded by advertising so the studio gets paid, the artist would get free advertising and public awareness.
All music sold online is directly by label and fans can pay what they feel is a fair price or no price if they wish.
Some of the money is made for the band/label from playing live gigs, appearances and franchised products.
There is a new chart that is created, where people vote by simple text/phone and have a tiny charge applied for the vote, or alternativly they can submit for free by the website and money for that vote is recovered from advertising. A chart for the people by the people. Then the bands who make say the top 4 - 10 would get a percentage of the money generated by the voting... keep a track at no1 for 4 weeks you get a load of money still :)
Just a though dont flame me, im not saying its a better model or even a possible model... just more a what if....
