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Maybe Vista doesn't suck?
zridling:
Also, remember, those were the days before the internet, and one person could share a song with millions of people, not just a few friends with a cassette mix tape. I still use cassettes in my truck, and most of the music on them is from the 60s and 70s (Jimmy Page has white hair now, damn I feel old). So it's not so much the copying as the distribution of it that drives the execs — and many artists — nuts.
If you're a one-hit wonder, you want to be able to live off the fat of that one song for life. The Grateful Dead, on the other hand, had the opposite approach, with the more (listeners) the merrier.
Still, technology like DRM presumes you're a criminal, always were, and always will be. Just say hell no.
Ralf Maximus:
Also, remember, those were the days before the internet, and one person could share a song with millions of people, not just a few friends with a cassette mix tape.
-zridling (December 03, 2007, 06:55 AM)
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That is an excellent point, sir. Perhaps it's the internet they fear most.
Darwin:
Maybe I'm adrift but I'm sure I recall fuss and commotion about recording to open-reel tape, and later cassette, well before 1980. Apple was started in '67 and the mystical anti-recording signal stuff came almost at once, if I recall it right.
-cranioscopical (December 02, 2007, 05:13 PM)
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I wonder if this was another one of Magic Alex' "brainwaves"?
zridling:
This sounds wacky, but imagine if the porn industry had taken the same tack as the music companies toward online file sharing, bittorrent, usenet, etc. The music industry's only idea is to sue, which doesn't stop copying, and costs you and your artists a fortune. (Ask Apple how much money there is to be made with cheap music — billions!) Instead, the porn industry has always been on the cutting edge of web tech, adopting and assimilating everything.
Darwin:
This sounds wacky
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No pun intended?
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