Sons Of Napster Have No Future
from the the-music-industry-will-win dept
David Coursey is predicting that all the Napster wannabes will be dead soon as the music industry will finally come up with copy protection schemes that are “good enough”. Sure, some hackers will figure out ways to crack the systems, and there will be some communities that trade music freely – those will all be too complicated (and too “illegal”) for most people to get involved with. The depressing thing about this (assuming it does come true) is it would be a real loss for consumers. Here’s a technology that gives people the chance to hear music they might not ever hear otherwise, and thanks to the recording industry’s greed, it won’t happen.
Comments on “Sons Of Napster Have No Future”
The genie is already out.
If they create a way to keep their songs being ripped off a CD, it will require a total rethinkk of the CD/Audio read technology. They can come up with anything they would like to stop the music trade, but one thing is obvious – there is TONS of music out there that does not have this protection that can be ripped. The MP3 Genie is out and although I agree with the RIAA for stopping Napster in its previous model, I definately think the RIAA needs to TOTALLY rethink its model for distrubuting music.