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In Reply to: They're reliable enough to keep all of your financial data. posted by Pacman on November 12, 2006 at 17:04:25:
HowdyI admit I haven't tried ITunes or any other online music in the last year, but:
I have nothing against artists (and the rest of the chain for that matter) getting compensated and not ripped off, but DRM as implemented has lots of problems and completely undermines backing up the music you own.
How many times have your been screwed out of access to music you own because some idiot key wasn't backed up, etc. I avoid it by technically breaking the law and using something like Total Recorder to make a clean but unprotected copy of each thing I buy so I won't have to worry about the next media player being able to deal with, say RealJukebox 1.0's DRM.
When they stop being paranoid and making the lives of their honest customers hell I'll consider buying more material for digital download: right now I'm quite happy with the selection of music I can get on SACD/CD, etc.
Note that I purchase most of my software as downloads instead of CDs or boxes and have had great luck even when I've had to get it back from backups after a computer crash. I would have lost the DRM versions of music I had if I hadn't also backed up my unDRMed versions of it.
-Ted
Follow Ups:
It amazes me that most software companies can make a very profitable living selling across the net but the record companies are clueless.Apple makes record profits with i-tunes and Sony's answer is to put rootkit trojans on their customer's computers. Like you, I buy my software over the net and when I purchased a new computer, I transferred it over with no problems. The bottom line is that this is a solved problem. You can make money selling music over the web. The record companies just haven't figured it out yet.
Once a company becomes a large cap institution, changing course is like turning a super-tanker on a dime. It's very difficult to do and many fail. Just look at GM and Ford, failing while Toyota sells more expensive cars AND grabs increasing market share. Kodak owned the film business. But they didn't see the digital revolution coming and will never be a major player again.
The record companies have a lot of assets and sooner or later they might actually figure it out. But meanwhile, business abhors a vacuum and more nimble companies will step in to grab their market share. Apple already has. Micro$oft definitely sees an opening here. They need more products to grow significantly and they can match any record companies dollar for dollar. Look what Walmart did to the supermarket industry. Micro$oft could do the same.
BTW where audio goes DVD-V's follow. The film studios need to think about the transition as well, which they are not.
I wasn't amazed that you were right, I am amazed that that the record companies are so clueless. But you already knew that (grin).
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