SCREEECH HALT 2
For years the recording industry (RIAA) has had us shackled when it came to digital music. If I buy a real CD at a brick and mortar, I can play it in my car, I can play it in my friends car, I can play in my house, on my computer… I can copy it to tape, I can copy it to another CD, I can copy it to DVD, I can copy it to VHS if I really wanted to… I can sell it to my friend, I can trade it with the creepy man down the street for some moonshine if I want to… But buy it on line? I can stick it in one library and play it on one stinking mp3 player. WTF! It’s a criminal tax in reality. It assumes that because you’ve procured your music with a computer, you are in fact a criminal who will do unlawful things with that music as though music in digital form is SO much easier to move about in underground circles than that impenetrable fortress of shinny, disk-like encryption they call “CD”.
Well one brave, forward thinking company, EMI, is braving this front and committing to be the first to go naked into this realm. For the first time, a big record label is putting up their entire catalogue up for sale DRM free. Ahhh, I can feel the relief… free at last… no more DRM… What’s this? Apple wants an extra 35¢ for this freedom? Taxed again!
The moral of the story… nothing in life is free.
[tags]Apple, EMI, DRM, RIAA[/tags]