COPYCENSE

"Having all your tunes at your fingertips isn’t just fun — it makes you a more avid consumer of music. So why are the recording companies fighting (.pdf) the future?

"By their every indication, record executives appear to be unhappy that people are more engaged with popular music. They are busy cooking up half-baked copy protection schemes that will prevent the ripping of newly purchased CDs.

"They are pushing legislation intended to criminalize all kinds of behavior and technology. Rather than make it easier for folks to spend money, they would rather  return to the neolithic times when people heard a song on the radio they liked, they would have to trudge to the record store and spend $18 on bloated filler."

Andrew Leonard. The Digital Music Renaissance. Salon. July 1, 2004.

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