Big News! Mp3s are ‘100% compatible’!
p2pnet news view | Music:- Uh oh.
“Seven of Britain’s largest [korporate] music download sites have got together to promote a new ‘MP3 compatible’ logo,” says the BBC.
Why ‘Uh oh’?
Because Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry) likes the idea and anything it approves of has of necessity to be treated with extreme caution.
“The Entertainment Retailers Association devised the logo, which emphasises the fact that MP3 files can be played on any digital player,” says the story.
Oh, really?
“HMV, Woolworths, 7digital, Digitalstores, Tescodigital, Tunetribe, and Play.com have all signed up to the scheme, which will show consumers that the MP3 download will play on PCs, Macs, and portable music players.”
Someone ought to tell them ‘consumers’ have known that for years, but the corporate entertainment cartels have spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to stop them from doing it.
The Beeb has BPI employee Geoff Taylor saying, “This logo will not only help give consumers confidence that the music files they are buying will play on a wide range of devices, but will also help them know that they are legal and that artists are getting paid.”
Oh, really?
Another expensive, and totally useless, corporate effort.
BBC – New MP3 logo gets online support, November 4, 2008
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November 5th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
is mp3 not a ISO standard so anyone clamming to make a portable music player would have to comply to the specification to list mp3 compatibility anyway.
actually who cares im happy with my second hand cd’s encoded to flac on a ipod(rockbox firmware)
November 5th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Savvy ‘consumers’ may have known about this for years, but there are a whole lot of “children of the digital age” that don’t even know what a file extension is. People’s ignorance of digital media and software they blindly pay for and regularly (attempt to) use never ceases to amaze me. While I agree this ‘promotion’ needs it’s mouth examined closely, I think it’s a good thing, at least on the face of it. Now if they would attempt to educate people on what DRM REALLY means. On that subject, my Vista x64 machine is so laden with hardware and software DRM crippleware that what SHOULD be a screaming fast (quad core) stable computer is very clunky at times and chokes regularly when trying to handle media files. And these are uninfected files! Speaking of savvy consumers, its time to switch to Linux…
November 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am
lol i think TPB should put this logo on their site, hahaha