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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-05-07

"Does anyone imagine that this incident [ Microsoft terminating support for MSN Music store DRM] makes the public sympathetic to the music industry's DRM demands? In a stroke, the music industry has taught another few million users that DRM means 'Do Rip Me Off,' because these customers are not getting what they paid for AND, in no small part because of the music industry's insane demands, are losing another legal source of music. This is a base of people who have demonstrated that they prefer to buy legally licensed music and abide by DRM than illegally download music for free. And their reward? They get ripped off and treated like garbage." -- [info] osewalrus, 2008-04-30

"I can't tell you how many CDs and DVDs that I have bought over the years that were lost to a molten-hot car interior or scratched beyond repair. Digital content should be more secure from loss, since it can be saved to several different places if need be. Yet DRM proponents seem intent on making it easier to lose the content, to the benefit of everyone but the consumer." -- Dave Methvin, 2008-04-23

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posted by [identity profile] smallship1.livejournal.com at 09:37am on 2008-05-07
Ze explanation iss zimple. They aren't interested in us, or the music, or how we prefer to buy it, or whether we can keep it securely, or what happens after we've done the all-important paying of the money. If we have to buy it again, and again, and again, then they're in hog heaven. If they could find a way to get us to give them all our money without their having to provide us any music or indeed anything at all, they'd regard it as a triumph of the proper order of things. People don't believe me when I talk about corporate demons, but that is no more and no less than what they are.
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posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 12:57pm on 2008-05-07
If they could find a way to get us to give them all our money without their having to provide us any music or indeed anything at all, they'd regard it as a triumph of the proper order of things.

I think that's what televangelists do :3
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posted by [identity profile] osewalrus.livejournal.com at 02:12pm on 2008-05-07
Sure. But it is ultimately a self-defeating strategy.

That is not new to the music industry, which lived so well so long that they never conceived people would stop buying their product on the terms dictated. But I do feel compelled to point it out, if only for my own satisfaction.
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