02 Jun 2004 @ 10:53 AM
According to CNet, music labels are trying to dampen CD burning yet again. So far, this has never worked. Every method of copy protection fails. This is especially true of audio CDs, because you have to be able to *hear* them for it to make any sense to buy them. Since anything you can hear can be copied, any copy protection of audio (or video) is doomed to failure.
I would think this would be obvious, but apparently it’s not to the music and movie industries, who think fighting with and suing their customers is a good business idea.
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I don’t understand either, why the recording industry keeps trying all these different methods of stopping people from sharing music, when they just should get on board and work with it. It’s never going to go away, and all these new music sharing for a price services aren’t going to cut it. Most folks share music with the free servers online because they don’t want to pay $20 a cd. Well, the last fee-for-download service I really looked into, it was $.99 a download. So, we can typically get anywhere from 15-20 tracks on a cd….so we’re right back to $20 cd’s. (Or $100-200 for an MP3 disk, yikes.) Nope, that’s why we’re not buying cd’s in the first damn place. And the services that are cheaper, have fewer songs to their catalog. Napster currently boasts 700,000, but there are millions of songs out there in the world. Make it .10-.20 a download, they will come.