After researching DRM I can’t help comparing the issues raised by DRM bodies with the issues involved in the “War on Drugs”.
I think it’s a matter of self choice which will be changed through choice and education and not forced through restriction.
If people want to copy music then they will find a way. Maybe the music industry should take a step back and take on board some of the oppositions expressed by Anti- DRM associates.
“Wikinomics” refers to a technique used by Cory Doctorow, author of Boing Boing (sort of blog) which has 750,000 readers; he is also a successful science fiction novelist.
Doctorow gives his online fans the opportunity to download for free online versions of his latest novels.
“By giving fans free e-books, Doctorow enlists his devoted readers as unpaid evangelists for his work” Wikinomics - Don Tapscott & Antony Williams
Doctorow himself sites the fact that he trusts his fans with free online material as a main reason of his profound success.
I think the music industry should take their heads out of the sand of restrictions and start to consider some alternative methods of copyright before they get left in the past.
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