Also on MSNBC.com an article about someone that is upset on what is going on in the entertainment industry at the moment.
Steven Levvy (You really should check out his picture) has written an article about how the industry is trying to limit their customers and why it's wrong:
To make sure that the customer's larcenous options are totally closed off, however, copy protection must be built into computers and other devices. Enter Hollings's proposed Security Standards and Certification Act. The bill demands that all digital electronic devices be saddled with systems that restrict copying of tunes and movies. Earth to moguls: beware of what you wish for. Business-school professors could feast for years on the unintended consequences that come from treating Britney Spears tunes like nuclear secrets. Clearly, clamping locks on electronic equipment and intentionally crippling CDs wouldn't increase sales. Would it depress sales? Almost certainly. |
Millions of people commonly, and legally, buy CDs, rip the tunes on computer hard drives, and then either download to MP3 players or mix and burn their own CD compilations. But if new discs are copy-protected, someone who wants a classic James Taylor album might do better to buy a vintage disc on eBay. MP3 fans desiring a rip-friendly disc of Moby's latest would be forced to seek a pirated version where someone has illegally broken the security controls. I can't see how this situation would boost album revenues.
Then there's the impact on the electronics industry. If new computers, CD-DVD players and personal video recorders are hobbled, consumers will hold on to their pre-Hollings machines. As Intel's Leslie Vadasz warned the Commerce Committee, "[Your legislation] will substantially retard innovation ... and will reduce the usefulness of our products to consumers."
It seems that the general public is seeing that the entertainment industry is not listening to consumers but is trying to limit them so they can get the money they so badly want.
Of course they shouldn't money, there are people that work for that need their food, houses and feed their kids, nothing wrong with that, but they don't have to become all very wealthy and sell their products overpriced...
Source: MSNbc.com
