Comments on: RIAA Wants Us to Pay Twice for Our Music http://whatan00b.com/riaa-wants-us-to-pay-twice-for-our-music Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dusty Schnabel http://whatan00b.com/riaa-wants-us-to-pay-twice-for-our-music/comment-page-1#comment-122 Dusty Schnabel Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:16:39 +0000 http://whatan00b.com/?p=436#comment-122 I agree, intellectual property is just that, property. Thus it should not be stolen or 'shared' on the internet. I would argue though that the RIAA and MPAA need to re-evaluate their business models. Paying 20-25 dollars for a CD or DVD, is not in line with what the market is willing to pay to some extent. Plus, they have not been overly friendly or open allowing their content onto stores such as iTunes without burdensome DRM. Although iTunes has made it fairly easy to work with DRM'ed material on approved software or devices, there is still a lot of lock-in and lack of flexibility in what one can do with material that was paid for by the consumer. This affects people's acceptance of the technology. This is when some will turn to ripping DRM free content or going to P2P to gain access. If it weren't for iTunes, I wouldn't have purchases the amount of media I have in the past 5 years the legitimate way. With that being said, I know that if there is an option for getting something for free, there will be people who will use that option. But the amount of hassle it takes to manage DRM some times, I think just pushes legitimate consumers to the 'Dark Side' of online media. Cheers, DJS I agree, intellectual property is just that, property. Thus it should not be stolen or ‘shared’ on the internet. I would argue though that the RIAA and MPAA need to re-evaluate their business models. Paying 20-25 dollars for a CD or DVD, is not in line with what the market is willing to pay to some extent. Plus, they have not been overly friendly or open allowing their content onto stores such as iTunes without burdensome DRM.

Although iTunes has made it fairly easy to work with DRM’ed material on approved software or devices, there is still a lot of lock-in and lack of flexibility in what one can do with material that was paid for by the consumer. This affects people’s acceptance of the technology. This is when some will turn to ripping DRM free content or going to P2P to gain access. If it weren’t for iTunes, I wouldn’t have purchases the amount of media I have in the past 5 years the legitimate way.

With that being said, I know that if there is an option for getting something for free, there will be people who will use that option. But the amount of hassle it takes to manage DRM some times, I think just pushes legitimate consumers to the ‘Dark Side’ of online media.

Cheers,
DJS

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