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Songwriters Want Dual Payments For Copy Protected CDs
from the oh,-sweet-irony dept
For all the effort the recording industry has put into making sure that they get paid for every single song that appears anywhere - it looks like they may have painted themselves into something of a corner. The current popular copy protection scheme is what's known as a "dual session" CD - where two sets of songs are included on the CD. The first one is like a regular CD, and plays music when the CD is placed in a standard CD player. The second set of songs is called if the CD is put into a computer CD tray - and includes mechanisms to prevent copying. The problem is that the publishers and songwriters claim that each CD sold with such dual sessions should count as if two copies of each song had been sold. In other words, they want to get paid double for each of these CDs. As ridiculous as this sounds, using the recording industry's own logic, it makes perfect sense.
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I don't think it sounds that crazy...
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Re: I don't think it sounds that crazy...
Of course, the RIAA will use this as an excuse to tack on four more dollars to the $18 per CD cost their members charge their customers, even though the songwriter gets another $0.02 for the CD. And then they will complain even louder why customers aren't buying half of what they bought last year because of illegal file sharing.
As much as I think this is a good idea, I think the ultimate goal is to cut out as much of the middle-greed-monsters as we can, since their short-term greed is hurting everyone else, including the folks that they are "sworn to protect" (which is laughable at best, since the RIAA couldn't possibly care any less for the musicians they steal from, nor the customer they steal from.)
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Yes it does. Re: I don't think it sounds that craz
What a bunch of jack@$$es. Wish I could dictate that kind of nonsense in my field. "I'd like you pay double for anything you use in two different players."
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This is why people pirate digital music
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