A good Read here folks
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1887267,00.htmlThe record industry is slowly getting its act together, having been typically slow to see the exciting but disruptive opportunities offered by the great innovations of the internet: that extra copies cost virtually nothing to manufacture and nothing to deliver. But it is still making big mistakes by trying to impose its own digital rights management (DRM) contracts on customers, laying down what they can and can't do with a track, thereby overriding existing copyright law. Just as they have been extracting compensation from mass downloaders under threat of court action, so they are, in effect, acting as judge and jury with customers by imposing special contracts. It is very difficult to buy a track and freely play it. You buy a licence for specified formats on certain machines, maybe with a time limit imposed. If only the industry would provide interoperable, affordable tracks, most people would be only too happy to pay. They cough up huge sums on ringtones, for goodness sake.
Such restricted use, combined with the benevolent economics of the internet, should mean downloaded tracks are much cheaper, especially in the "long tail" of recordings that have ceased to be stocked in shops. The recording industry's imposition of its own contract law - which can last forever - on top of the laws of copyright can, as the British Library has pointed out, override "fair use" provisions and even end copies for the disabled.
I dont agree that they are "getting their act together " if that was the case a more fair distribution of financial renumeration would flow towards the artist as they are the creator of the work, while we as a society allow leeches to profit from monopolising music in favour of illegal Cartels we are our own worse enemies.
Music copyright was invented to allow folks to be paid for their work , to restore the balance of the intended spirit of the act, they should outlaw the transfer of rights , this will at a stroke kill the excuse the music industry uses to steal off of artists by engineering contracts that hand the rights over to the Cartels and allow them to ask for 90% of most revenues generated , the same revenue used to attack new artists by closing P2P networks that allow for them to distribute their own work to gain publicity, this is the true reason for the Cartel attacks on P2P, monopolisation and manipulation.
