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Re: Do you really think CDs will be protected in future?
From: "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:22:41 -0700
What I find especially amusing about all this is the fact that people are overlooking the fundamental flaw in the technology. Fact is, back when Elvis sang and Sam Phillips recorded it, the artists and producers had a virtual monopoly on the technology. Who here is old enough to have owned a monophonic record player (with 16, 33.3, 45, and 78 speeds)? what the industry has done is that hey have destroyed their own business model. By selling consumers the technology to reproduce recordings (and may I add that many of the companies that release the recordings also manufacture the recording media, so their arguments a la "we're losing revenue" don't wash because they're making it on the back end), companies killed their own golden goose. they want it both ways - they control the artists, the product, *and* the recording media. Of course, when mp3 and computer disks started coming into the picture, that revenue started to go elsewhere, and *that* is what pissed off the RIAA. I bet that if the RIAA owned Western Digital and Maxtor and a couple of other disk drive manufacturers they wouldn't bitch nearly as loudly. It's about money, plain and simple. And no, the genie is *not* going back into the bottle, copy protection or otherwise. Face it, RIAA, you screwed yourselves. Come up with a better business model. And this time, don't make it available to the consumer public. Better yet, just settle for the trillions that you make off artists' backs from live shows. G On or about 2003.10.09 10:14:31 +0000, Davide Del Vecchio (dante () alighieri org) said:
I don`t know what you think about this, but in my opinion will never exist a method to REALLY protect CDs, just because I think that "if I can ear it, I can reproduce (and record) it".
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