Re: OT: Converting ITunes 6.x to Mp3 format?

On 2006-03-11, Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Give me a break. The guy wasn't talking about a single consumer electronics
company, and neither am I. The industry as a whole can easily pool their
resources and develop the content they need to sell their products. All
without the current media industries.

You've hit it on the head. In THEORY they can easily pool their
resources. But in practise they will not do that in a million years.

Besides, Sony (a consumer electronics company) also owns one of the big
4 record labels - but that hasn't made the situation any better for the
end user. In fact, Sony are arguably one of the worst record labels for
the end user - installing bug-ridden crap on people's PCs that stops the
computer from functioning correctly.

RIAA would just have to put up with that. They're not going to stop
publishing CDs, and if you think the barrier for the electronics industry to
implement a content industry is high, imagine how high the barrier for the
content industry to implement the electronics industry is.

The content industry IS part of the consumer electronics industry - see
the Sony factor, and Sony are one of the worst when it comes to DRM. At
least Apples' DRM doesn't break your computer!

Apple are currently facing off with the record companies (who are
threatening to take away the content unless Apple jacks up the price).
Let's see who blinks first.

Let's see, I'm the consumer. I get to pick from paying $10-20 per album, or
the $2-3 per song the RIAA would really like to charge, and I can only play
that content on products that won't let me make my own copies for backup,
<snip>
Which one do you think I'm going to go for?

Have you been to Magnatune yet? (Or any of the other small online labels
which sell music in non-DRM formats and actively encourage you to give
the music you download away to your friends, and what's more -
explicitly allow it with the Creative Commons license?)

That won't be changing any time soon (although
it may change in the long term, so long as the new guard of record
companies don't get locked out by DRM legislation).

I agree, legislation is the biggest barrier here. If the media companies
have their way, all digital media will be DRM-protected, by law. However, I
also believe that assuming the electronics industries buy into the whole
"make their own media" plan, they would put the lobbying efforts necessary
into the project to ensure that they can legally make DRM-free hardware and
content.

The trouble is the electronics companies won't do it and don't seem to
be interested in doing it, except for Sony who are on the DRM and pay
ripoff prices train.

Personally, in the last year I have bought more albums than I have in
the preceeding 10 years. More than half the albums I have bought are
<snip>
Duh...you're just proving my point.

But I'm the exceptional case here. How many teenagers (the people with
the biggest demand for popular music) are buying music from independent
artists? 0.1%? 0.01%? In fact, how many people altogether are buying
independent music *or even know you can* online? 0.5%? The word doesn't
seem to be spreading very quickly even though what you get is just as
good quality musically (in my opinion better) and completely
unencumbered.

And imagine how much even easier it would be if the DRM-free content sources
were backed by the electronics industries.

But they won't do it though because they are either in bed with the
RIAA or in Sony's case, they are part of the RIAA.

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