Aufgemerkt, die heilige Musikindustrie steht wieder einmal völlig zu Unrecht in der Kritik:
“I just don’t think that this is the answer to the problem that they think exists,” says the manager of one veteran artist affected by the XCP software. Mike Martinovich, manager for My Morning Jacket, says that even before the revelation of MediaMax’s security problems, his company had been mailing burned, unprotected copies of MMJ’s new album Z to fans who complained that MediaMax prevented them from transferring songs to their iPods. “It should have been enough that fans are annoyed,” he says. “But this should be the final reason.”
It’s much better to have copies of albums on lots of iPods, even if only half of them have been paid for, than to have a few CD’s sitting on a shelf and not being played. […] Conscientious fans, who buy music legally because it’s the right thing to do, just get insulted. They’ve made the choice not to steal their music, and the labels thank them by giving them an inferior product hampered by software that’s at best a nuisance, and at worst a security threat. As for musicians, we are left to wonder how many more people could be listening to our music if it weren’t such a hassle, and how many more iPods might have our albums on them if our labels hadn’t sabotaged our releases with cumbersome software.
Diesen und ähnlichen kritischen Entwicklungen, die im schlimmsten Fall die Musikindustrie als Zwischenglied zwischen Künstler und Fan vollkommen ausblenden, muss sofort entschlossen entgegengetreten werden - notfalls mit militärischer Unterstützung. Es wäre ein Unding, würde dieser freundliche, vertrauenswürdige und stets aufgeschlossene Industriezweig durch derartig anarchische und kommunistische Umtriebe zerstört werden. Das Internet könnte hierfür eine entscheidende Rolle spielen und ist daher umgehend zu verbieten!
Visionäre haben dies bereits vor Jahren thematisiert:
“The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams…It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what…Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [ISP]. We will firewall it at your PC…These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake.”
Die Musikindustrie ist mit allen Mitteln zu verteidigen! It’s all about their revenue streams at stake!
[via netzpolitik]
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