Okay, I've been kinda offline for a few days, nearly a week. I've been swamped with the Calls For Cthulhu thing, building a new set, filming new segments, learning how to mix them, etc.

When I left you people, everybody was saying that Internet piracy was ruining music sales, and big companies were all using competing forms of DRM to protect themselves.

Less than a week later, and it looks like it's all changed!

Steve Jobs said that he hates DRM, the RIAA let slip a quote that admitted DRM was all about controlling legal content for more sales, EMI said that they were going to start selling their music without DRM, a report came out showing that Internet piracy was "statistically insignificant" to music sales, and now the Yahoo Music Chief comes out against DRM. . .

What changed? I mean, was Jobs' complaint that big a deal? Was he so important that these companies had to fall all over themselves to follow his lead, even allowing the DRM reports to get out? I mean, any day now I expect to hear that AllOfMP3, despite having broken no laws, may not be operating illegally after all!

It's a madhouse, I tell you! A madhouse!
 
   

 


 
 
misterghoulie on
Re: What the hell happened to DRM?
Does this mean that Cthulhu is spreading waves of insanity and palpable darkness across the land, tearing the minds and souls from the flesh?
gamecoder on
Re: What the hell happened to DRM?
That must be it. Surely one of the signs of the apocalypse is for the MAFIAA to pull their heads out of their collective asses.
hdan on
Re: What the hell happened to DRM?
I wonder if it has anything to do with the shift of power in Washington.  It sure makes you wonder how many ousted Republicans were in the pockets of the RIAA, doesn't it?
gamecoder on
Re: What the hell happened to DRM?
Really? Somehow it seems unlikely that the Dems would be less Hollywood than the Republicans. I mean, I can hope for it, but you look at someone like Hilary or Lieberman, and they both have been pro-industry, anti-consumer. It just seems odd that it would be the democratic influence that did it.
hdan on
Re: What the hell happened to DRM?
That's just part of the anti-left smear campaign - the Reps have done a fine job making everyone think that it's the Dems who are the bad guys! :-)

 

<snip>tyrade on how much the Dems and Reps have switched platforms in the last decade, with a brief mention of the so-called "liberal" Clinton being the only fiscally responsible president in the last few decades, and ending with a "back in my day" speach about how Bush and his Neocons are the very opposite of what Reps should be in my happy little delusional world.</snip>

 

Republicans are generally in favor of anyone with money hanging on to that money, so in my mind it's not much of a leap to think that some of them were quietly (or not so quietly) supporting the RIAA.

 

Lieberman and Hilary are mostly all about censorship and parental controls, at least from what little attention I've paid to them.  That's not to say they're not DRM proponents - I'm just saying I don't know if they are or not.

 

Remember, it's very simple:

Democrats think that everyone is too dumb to take care of themselves

Republicans want to punish people for not being rich

 

:-)

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