Comments on: Darn DRM, will our music ever be set free? http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8273/darn_drm_will_our_music_ever_be_set_free/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:30:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: meyou123 http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8273/darn_drm_will_our_music_ever_be_set_free/#comment-183887 meyou123 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-183887 We are in a very very significant transition. Technology is the basis of our future. We have to be able to monetise product and every time we try you want to make it available for free so people can buy devices. Gary stretches the concept of fair use to the point where the notion of "fair" has been eliminated. You have to protect the market value. [Gary] wants to morph fair use into a concept that justifies any consumer behavior to the point where you eliminate the value of property. Kids grow up not understanding that music and movies are intellectual property. You teach disrespect for intellectual property. Gary takes a concept morphs it makes us look like we’re evil. Shapiro to his credit countered "I don’t make you look evil - your lawsuits against old people around the country make you look evil." LOL! THAT just said it all! You see two viewpoints here those that represent the industry and those that represent the people. the industry has the content....but the people have the money to choose which product they buy or even if they buy at all and just pirate the stuff......I would put my money on the people anyday. P2P for all the evils the industry has accused it of has done one thing very well....like prohibition and the banning of alcohol forced people to find other ways to get it....so does the industries view that unless you buy DRMed music at 99 cents a song motivates people to find alternate ways to get their music. THAT ladies and gentlemen...says it ALL as far as I am concerned. I would have loved to have been at that meeting! We are in a very very significant transition. Technology is the basis of our future. We have to be able to monetise product and every time we try you want to make it available for free so people can buy devices. Gary stretches the concept of fair use to the point where the notion of “fair” has been eliminated. You have to protect the market value. [Gary] wants to morph fair use into a concept that justifies any consumer behavior to the point where you eliminate the value of property. Kids grow up not understanding that music and movies are intellectual property. You teach disrespect for intellectual property. Gary takes a concept morphs it makes us look like we’re evil.

Shapiro to his credit countered “I don’t make you look evil – your lawsuits against old people around the country make you look evil.”

LOL! THAT just said it all! You see two viewpoints here those that represent the industry and those that represent the people. the industry has the content….but the people have the money to choose which product they buy or even if they buy at all and just pirate the stuff……I would put my money on the people anyday.

P2P for all the evils the industry has accused it of has done one thing very well….like prohibition and the banning of alcohol forced people to find other ways to get it….so does the industries view that unless you buy DRMed music at 99 cents a song motivates people to find alternate ways to get their music.

THAT ladies and gentlemen…says it ALL as far as I am concerned. I would have loved to have been at that meeting!

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