http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/technology/12377388.htm
this doesn't really come as a surprise to me, I always thought that the music industry was overplaying the threat of those evil p2p-applications....
what nearly swept me off my feet though, was their conclusion to this:
are these guys really this stupid? already I'm refusing to buy any CDs that feature a copy-protection. And I know that I'm far from being the only one who does this. yep, applying more copy-protection is certainly the way to increase the sales
The first thing I do with a newly acquired CD is rip it to a mp3-file so I listen to it wherever I am. With CDs it's always the same, whenever you want to listen to a particular song, you don't have the cd around (it's buried somewhere in your flat, or you're not home). keeping the music only on your CDs is so 20th century
this doesn't really come as a surprise to me, I always thought that the music industry was overplaying the threat of those evil p2p-applications....
what nearly swept me off my feet though, was their conclusion to this:
(Copy protection technology) is an answer to the problem that clearly the marketplace is going to see more of,'' he added.
are these guys really this stupid? already I'm refusing to buy any CDs that feature a copy-protection. And I know that I'm far from being the only one who does this. yep, applying more copy-protection is certainly the way to increase the sales

The first thing I do with a newly acquired CD is rip it to a mp3-file so I listen to it wherever I am. With CDs it's always the same, whenever you want to listen to a particular song, you don't have the cd around (it's buried somewhere in your flat, or you're not home). keeping the music only on your CDs is so 20th century
