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Estimated. Apparently they did pull it out of a hat.
as are all surveys. they poll a few people and multiply that by the number of people in the affected community.
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No way, I want to be able to say to my mate, hey check out this cool song, and put it on his iPod or whatever.
nice of you to be up front about that.
so contrary to other pleas you're anti drm not cos it has interfered with your putting your legally purchased track onto your ipod but cos it stops you distributing the track to all your friends, ie exactly what its supposed to curtail.Realistically though you and I will most like find ways around drm, its johnny bogun from addington who will have problems with it.
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that illegal downloads are three times the amount of legal music sales.
so 75% of all music consumption is pirated?
thats not so bad is it........? -
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more from the herald article
As part of its response, the industry is calling on internet service providers to take more responsibility for illegal file sharing by either disconnecting those who repeatedly upload music or preventing illegal tracks from being downloaded.
Many ISPs have so far proved reluctant to engage on the matter, but the music industry is hoping this could change following a move by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to block Web access to those frequently downloading music or films illegally.
now wasn't I just saying that they had to be repercussions.
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What I'm saying is that you don't get to choose. In this day and age,
apparently you do get to choose as with the example I gave you with logic audio and the DRM on their software. essentially uncrackable, dongle only or it doesn't work.
the issue is at what cost.
I want to be in control of how I use the media, and the more restrictions placed on how I use it, the more disillusioned I will become and the less likely I am to experience it.
So you'd be quite happy with DRM that allowed you to do all of that but stopped you from distributing digital media to your friends?
And what you want and what you can have are different things as illustrated by the Internet Provider industry.
I want high speed internet with no data cap at affordable prices but fuck me if I can actually have that in this country at the moment.
I can have high speed all I can eat as long as I don't want to eat much (xtra go large and woosh both offered but now discontinued, and those left on the package suffer traffic shaping (p2p traffic is filtered and all other traffic is choked down once it reaches 700 meg per day at peak traffic times)
or I can have high speed pay as you go with gigage costing an arm and a leg. remembering that 90 mins of watchable video is 700meg the dream of us all watching tv through our internet connection is a long way off. so apparently the customer is not king but is instead something to be manipulated and bleed at what ever rate the service provider can get away with. I'm keen to see your examples of where the customer gets to dictate the rules freely, especially the example where the customer gets to say they want something for free and gets it. -
The large majority of CD-ripping isn't done in aid of piracy, it's done by people who want to listen to music they've paid for on their iPods.
oh really, what study did you pull that bit of information from.
see above herald quote. apparently not everyone is ripping for their own personal use.
I see no issue with the purchaser being able to play a track on any of their machines and I don't see properly implemented DRM getting in the way of that. The DRM we've seen and the one you as a media commentator are attacking is not properly implemented in my opinion,just cos someone tried to stem the flow of copying which made it difficult for you to rip a cd to your ipod shouldn't automatically lead you to the conclusion that all DRM is evil. You know why they need to do it and you should understand the wider implications of a failure to do so. there is no viable alternative model.
and please don't give me the david byrne says everyone's going to play live from now on speech. when was the last time you say him play at the kings arms? -
Protecting the status quo by making technology that doesn't work properly? That's always been successful ...
your definition of properly and the device designers definition may well be 2 different things.
properly in their case might mean you can play the track on any of YOUR play back devices. your definition of properly might mean allowing you to copy and give it to your friends. -
This from the herald this morning
"Illegally downloaded tracks now outnumber legally bought music tracks by 20 to 1, the international trade body said today".
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Finn?
how you going with your answers. How can you expect to beat the oposition if you don't understand their side of the story?