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Jonah Daneshmand
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[Poll] DRM (Digital Rights Management)
December 13, 2008 - 10:21 PM
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Is it good or bad? Artists and musicians deserve payment for their work, but art is meant to be viewed or listened to by all to inspire. Thoughts?
In regards To Draconian DRM policies that dont allow you to listen to a song on a different computer Than you bought it on, what about those?
This post was edited on: 2008-12-13 at 10:22 PM by: jonahd
[Poll] DRM (Digital Rights Management)
Good
(2 votes for 66.67%)
Bad
(0 votes for 0%)
I dont Know
(0 votes for 0%)
Sometimes It's OK
(1 votes for 33.33%)
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Re: [Poll] DRM (Digital Rights Management)
February 13, 2009 - 04:38 AM
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Digital Right Management are needed but we just can't figure out where the gray area starts a begins.
Here is a link to the top Viacom Lawyer's most thoughts on intellectual property.
Taking down Mash ups (prosumer content)
Basically if its not copied exactly he doesn't concern himself with it. But they do look for "considerable difference".
That being said this pirated content only comes about through devices created like the early Kazaa and the more recently bit torrent software. Right now media sharing consists of half the overall internet traffic. And try asking the music industry if its slowing down.
I heard a story once about outraged performers that protested the early Thomas Edison record player because it substituted the needs and wants of going to the theater.
What is for certain is that as new technologies emerge to make a task more efficient people lose out and people gain. Opportunity disappears and new opportunities hit the horizon. When the Combine was invented it took the job of 12 field workers who cut straw by hand....Is anybody donating to a struggling wheat collectors group?
Bottom line is that the arts are an essential part of cultural development but they will never disappear, they will simply reshape themselves for a new generation designed to consume them in different ways. My Space has provided countless artists with exposure they would have never achieved.
One final point is that musicians now may also have to figure out a new business model. God forbid they have to go old school and go on tour after they generate a little online momentum. It may be that the web has provided a reality check for some musicians who thought they could just put out a song and make millions, now they may also have to go out and sing it well for the public.
Cheers!
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All The Best,
Stu
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