Comments on: EMI wants payment to drop DRM http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11447 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11447/comment-page-1#comment-134374 Reader's Write Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:43:08 +0000 #comment-134374 ALL DRMed "product" the idea of retailers boycotting is GREAT. But you are correct in that it is ultimately up to the consumer to take on this task. ...AND to TELL the **AAs we are doing it! This way they can't "confuse" low sales due to boycott with "pirating". If one boycotts, then spend the time, paper and postage to tell them. With a diluge of snail-mail telling them that that paper COULD be M-O-N-E-Y how can they possibly NOT get the 'clue'? Let's pile their mailboxes so full of paper they have no choice!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL DRMed “product” the idea of retailers boycotting is GREAT. But you are correct in that it is ultimately up to the consumer to take on this task. …AND to TELL the **AAs we are doing it! This way they can’t “confuse” low sales due to boycott with “pirating”. If one boycotts, then spend the time, paper and postage to tell them. With a diluge of snail-mail telling them that that paper COULD be M-O-N-E-Y how can they possibly NOT get the ‘clue’? Let’s pile their mailboxes so full of paper they have no choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11447/comment-page-1#comment-134340 Reader's Write Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:03:28 +0000 #comment-134340 There's a simple answer to this that doesn't require buy-in or participation by either the cartels or who sells it. You don't buy it because it isn't worth a plug nickel. That is why cd sales are dropping. No one but no one wants DRM. The other thing the cartels don't want to hear is that digital sales aren't as valuable as physical discs. They don't have the quality nor range at 128 bit rate. Even raising the bit rate won't change that your hard-drive failing, malware, computer breakdown, or any range of problems will mean you no longer have the music you purchased. That makes it far less durable and not worth the price unless it is extremely low. We already know what the cartels' answer to that is. They've been playing that game ever since the days of the vinyl record. Raising the price because they don't have to pay more for non-DRM? lol. Go ahead dinosaurs. I heard some rumor about skies falling. There’s a simple answer to this that doesn’t require buy-in or participation by either the cartels or who sells it. You don’t buy it because it isn’t worth a plug nickel. That is why cd sales are dropping. No one but no one wants DRM.

The other thing the cartels don’t want to hear is that digital sales aren’t as valuable as physical discs. They don’t have the quality nor range at 128 bit rate. Even raising the bit rate won’t change that your hard-drive failing, malware, computer breakdown, or any range of problems will mean you no longer have the music you purchased. That makes it far less durable and not worth the price unless it is extremely low.

We already know what the cartels’ answer to that is. They’ve been playing that game ever since the days of the vinyl record. Raising the price because they don’t have to pay more for non-DRM? lol. Go ahead dinosaurs. I heard some rumor about skies falling.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11447/comment-page-1#comment-134332 Reader's Write Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:26:50 +0000 #comment-134332 Imagine if all major retailers dropped major record labels unless they remove all DRM. I think it is the retailers who have the upper hand and should continue to fight for what WE, the people who pay all of them, want. Imagine if all major retailers dropped major record labels unless they remove all DRM. I think it is the retailers who have the upper hand and should continue to fight for what WE, the people who pay all of them, want.

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