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]]> By: eric http://techliberation.com/2006/08/03/we-want-the-whole-loaf/comment-page-1/#comment-54533 eric Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:41:35 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/08/03/we-want-the-whole-loaf/#comment-54533 <p>The last point is crucial. If MP3 sellers can make a nice go of it, they will have pulled the rug out from under the argument for restrictions.<br><br>Unencrypted MP3s, sold by independent labels and subscription services like eMusic, are perhaps the most effective arguments against DRM. If MP3s were sonically satisfactory to me, I would be supporting that avenue of commerce. As it is, I still continue to purchase non-DRM compact discs. In a way, I am voting with my feet as much as eMusic customers, and taking a stand against tough DRM, kinder gentler DRM, or any DRM at all.<br><br>My friends copy their CDs and give them to me. If I really like the album, I purchase it anyway. And of course, I give samples of my favorite music to friends, who often buy albums by those artists. Copying begets buying, which begets more copying, and more buying, etc. This has been true since I was a teen, some 30 years ago, when "cassette taping will kill the music industry!" Where did modern record executives grow up, that they do not understand this -- through direct experience? I will remain happily in the "pre-DRM" world, thank you. Speaking of which, has anyone noticed the increased interest in analog, i.e. vinyl?</p> The last point is crucial. If MP3 sellers can make a nice go of it, they will have pulled the rug out from under the argument for restrictions.

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My friends copy their CDs and give them to me. If I really like the album, I purchase it anyway. And of course, I give samples of my favorite music to friends, who often buy albums by those artists. Copying begets buying, which begets more copying, and more buying, etc. This has been true since I was a teen, some 30 years ago, when “cassette taping will kill the music industry!” Where did modern record executives grow up, that they do not understand this — through direct experience? I will remain happily in the “pre-DRM” world, thank you. Speaking of which, has anyone noticed the increased interest in analog, i.e. vinyl?

]]> By: eric http://techliberation.com/2006/08/03/we-want-the-whole-loaf/comment-page-1/#comment-34332 eric Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:41:35 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/08/03/we-want-the-whole-loaf/#comment-34332 <p>The last point is crucial. If MP3 sellers can make a nice go of it, they will have pulled the rug out from under the argument for restrictions.</p> <p>Unencrypted MP3s, sold by independent labels and subscription services like eMusic, are perhaps the most effective arguments against DRM. If MP3s were sonically satisfactory to me, I would be supporting that avenue of commerce. As it is, I still continue to purchase non-DRM compact discs. In a way, I am voting with my feet as much as eMusic customers, and taking a stand against tough DRM, kinder gentler DRM, or any DRM at all.</p> <p>My friends copy their CDs and give them to me. If I really like the album, I purchase it anyway. And of course, I give samples of my favorite music to friends, who often buy albums by those artists. Copying begets buying, which begets more copying, and more buying, etc. This has been true since I was a teen, some 30 years ago, when "cassette taping will kill the music industry!" Where did modern record executives grow up, that they do not understand this -- through direct experience? I will remain happily in the "pre-DRM" world, thank you. Speaking of which, has anyone noticed the increased interest in analog, i.e. vinyl?</p> The last point is crucial. If MP3 sellers can make a nice go of it, they will have pulled the rug out from under the argument for restrictions.

Unencrypted MP3s, sold by independent labels and subscription services like eMusic, are perhaps the most effective arguments against DRM. If MP3s were sonically satisfactory to me, I would be supporting that avenue of commerce. As it is, I still continue to purchase non-DRM compact discs. In a way, I am voting with my feet as much as eMusic customers, and taking a stand against tough DRM, kinder gentler DRM, or any DRM at all.

My friends copy their CDs and give them to me. If I really like the album, I purchase it anyway. And of course, I give samples of my favorite music to friends, who often buy albums by those artists. Copying begets buying, which begets more copying, and more buying, etc. This has been true since I was a teen, some 30 years ago, when “cassette taping will kill the music industry!” Where did modern record executives grow up, that they do not understand this — through direct experience? I will remain happily in the “pre-DRM” world, thank you. Speaking of which, has anyone noticed the increased interest in analog, i.e. vinyl?

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