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Ah yes, I remember when the problem with the music industry was big bad scary DRM. But now DRM on everything is just cool, because the DRM allows tech companie
by addicted 6y ago
Ah yes, I remember when the problem with the music industry was big bad scary DRM.
But now DRM on everything is just cool, because the DRM allows tech companies for which the majority of HN works for instead of the big bad scary RIAA and MPAA to control the product and skim off most of the money while adding the least value.
- catalogia 6y agoDRM on music is deader than Elvis. I can buy music from Amazon, Apple, or on CD, vinyl or magtap from a record store. None of them employ DRM.
- techsupporter 6y agoI think that’s GP’s point: lots of people justified pirating music because “DRM sucks and so does the RIAA for suing grandmothers,” and the people with the ability to push back (people in the tech industry, a much smaller group than now) did and DRM was quietly left behind for music purchases. But now that the tech industry is larger, fewer people, as a percentage, care about DRM so it is on books, movies, games, and most else...except music.
- artificial 6y agoAh, Napster. Reminds me of this ancient Flash animation https://youtu.be/fS6udST6lbE https://youtu.be/fS6udST6lbE