Let them tack on a new fee because I could potentially record the satellite radio stream… then in turn the XM/Sirius folk pass that fee onto me. Since I’m paying to record the stream, I can and will do so, willingly, sans and DRM or any other restriction they think they can impose… because I am paying for it… and they’re forcing me to pay for it.

I seem to recall in the early 80’s all the software guys tried copy protection. They abandonded it for the most part in a couple of years – it was soundly rejected by the market. Years later, registration and confirmation came to the front. However, copy protection is pretty much gone and software is copied freely. Too bas the media industries don’t take a look at something along these lines instead of this government mandated DRM preventent even those who wish to stream their own music from doing so. Talk about legislation for protection of status quo!

I dont listen to streaming music so I couldn’t care less but charging satellite radio extra because someone “might” record the music is complete bullshit. They dont do that for terrestrial radio do they?

in other news, george bush finally admited that he is the worst president in this nations history and all of hollywood admited they are gay.

tell us news that we dont already expect to hear. i saw this coming for some time now.

(Score: 1, Flaimbait)…. oh, wrong site

I have to agree with what one person said at least. It’s pretty pathetic that our country has such problems as starvation, poverty, diseases, and such global issues or at least national as we have. But the news toppers are Microsoft and DRM. Sad, very sad. Music is meant to be heard, you tell me those rich fuckers living in their *cribs* can’t afford to have their cds dropped in price to something people actually dont mind paying for. Please. RIAA calls us greedy because we don’t want to pay 15$ for a CD with one or two good songs on it yet the music industry lives in million dollar houses. I get the feeling the greed is not on my end for downloading music that is tolerable at best.

So sad…

Since im ranting i almost forgot….

The MPAA is also crying about the same thing with movie piraters. Here is what i say to them.

Put a movie in the theater worth paying 10$ for and i will pay 10$ to see it, but when your chart toppers are movies like *Date Movie* Don’t expect me to even download trash like that. I have seen maybe 3 good movies this year, and yes i saw them in theaters because nothing beats the big screen with a great movie. But as for the ones i downloaded, and oh yea i download a lot, most of them werent worth wasting 50 cents to buy a dvd to put them on 😉 Its a shame because i remember a lot of great movies growing up, and well, you just don’t see many of those anymore. For shame!!!

It’s become incredibly obvious that these companies have no interest in providing a useful service to customers and instead would rather focus on generating revenue by extracting settlement fees from ex-customers. I for one can not fathom how an industry such as this can expect to survive in the long term. While the companies may fade away I’m still apprehensive about the fact that their ill conceived laws and regulations will continue to haunt us long after their demise.

Once again, it’s looking like this is less about “choice” and much more about protecting one industry’s increasingly obsolete business model.

Mike, I believe you have misunderstood that industry’s business model. Their true business model is that of using money to corrupt lawmakers. And far from being obsolete, business is better than ever.

If you want to blame someone, the Clinton administration would be the ones to blame. Bush doesn’t care one way or another about copyrights. Clinton’s administration is the one that signed the DMCA into law. Also Bush is nowere near the biggest “big government” administration. Oddly, that was the FDR administration during our depression, which had several of its laws ruled unconstitutional and after the supream court made those rulings, FDR tried to pass a law to bypass the courts. Bush aint the problem, the RIAA is the problem. Also, anyone who wants socialism, is, no offence, a moron. Look at Canada. Their healthcare is socialized, and I know several hospital nurses that became nurses in canada and said that their healthcare system was in such awful shape that they couldnt stand it. America needs to take Hong Kongs aproch. The nation of Hong Kong (which is independant of their commie neighbors) has little to no welfare, no subsidized healthcare, no social security, little regulation at all of buisnesses and they set taxes at about 15%. Their government makes a net profit, and they are one of the few governments that do. I think America needs to become more capitalist.

The government isnt the problem here though, the problem here is the RIAA. I would say the best thing you can do is pirate music and use an OS like Linux which does not support trecherous computing based digital restictions managment.