[advocacy] DRM for Vorbis

[Daniel James]

It seems a Copyright Clearance System has been launched in Japan. It's linked 
to a consumer DRM encryption platform for Windows Media Player etc, but I 
don't see why such a system couldn't be used independently of classic DRM. If 
a DRM system stops people listening, then by definition it can't collect 
royalties from those potential listeners. I think the fundemental question is:

do you want to stop people listening to music, or do you want to collect 
artist royalties?

The music industry claims the two halves of the question mean the same when 
applied to the internet, but not when applied to the traditional broadcast 
media. In the early days of 78RPM records, some discs had a stamp on them 
(looking like a postage stamp) proving that the royalty had been paid.

I guess if the radio was invented today the music industry would demand a tax 
on every reciever set too. But for now, you can listen to a commercial radio 
station for free even if you don't buy the products advertised between the 
music. How lucky we are!

http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.093002/222730450

Daniel
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