[Trombone-l] Copy protection/DRM was Re: Bill Holman - In a jazz Orbit

[Jeff Albert]

I know this is old conversation, but I am just getting back to it.

I don't want to go so far as to encourage even private friendly copying,
which most of us have done at some point in our lives.  It is still
illegal.  Driving 75 mph on the interstate is also illegal (in most places),
but I haven't heard cries from law emforcment that cars should be
manufactured that are not capable of driving more than 70 mph.  We are
trusted to behave responsibly with vehicles that have the capacity to be
operated in an illegal manner.  I think we should have the same trust and
feeling of responsibility with recordings.

Don't drink and Kazaa...the artist you save may be your own...or something
like that.

Jeff

On 10/7/06, SteveInside at aol.com <SteveInside at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  I'd go so far as to say that (private, as opposed to commercial) copying
> is possibly an important part of building a listening audience and the copy
> protectors are shooting themselves in the foot — which I guess is a lot of
> what Jeff is saying.
>
> Some of my friends and I myself have copied stuff since we were kids; and
> those that copied the most are the ones with 600 or 1000 legitimate CDs and
> LPs in their house.  Importantly, we're also the ones that go to gigs and
> listen, go to local venues and listen and sometimes play ourselves.  In the
> late 20th century and definitely now, the ones that copy are the ones that
> are interested.
>
> Commercial copying is a whole other ball game and nobody I know thinks
> it's cool as, apart from anything else, the quality is usually atrocious and
> that is probably because the focus is the money and not the music or the
> consumer.
>
> Hey ho
> Steve C
> UK
>
> In a message dated 02/10/2006 19:31:50 GMT Standard Time,
> jeffalbert.smb at gmail.com writes:
>
> Which just goes to show that all of the copy protection or digital rights
> managements schemes in the world can't stop copying.
>
> If you can make it come out of speakers you can copy it.
>
> When are record labels going to realize that selling products that do less
> than the consumer expects is not a way to grow customer loyalty?
>
> That is why supporting artists and labels that sell legal drm free
> downloads
> and non-drm ed CDs is important.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>



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