Mayhem & Chaos BlogThe musings of Mayhem & ChaosThe end of the RIAA- January 11, 2008 I recently mentioned that I think the RIAA needs to go away and EMI is already thinking of defunding the RIAA! Making the RIAA go away and seriously rethinking the priorities for the IFPI would be an excellent way to change the attitude of the music industry towards their customers. The Swedish government has gotten a really big clue about Internet piracy (thanks to the Pirate Bay, no doubt) and they are advocating making file sharing legal: Decriminalizing all non-commercial file sharing...http://mayhem-chaos.net/blog/archives/001155.html Hell freezes over: DRM is dead!- January 4, 2008 Last year we saw EMI, Vivendi and Warner drop DRM, only to see Sony BMG drop it in the first week of 2008. DRM is officially dead! Ars Technica did a nice piece on the continuing decline of CD Sales late last year -- looks like the big labels finally realized that people are giving up the CD in favor of digital downloads. And they finally realized that DRM prevents sales altogether, so previously there was no viable transition from CD income to download income. But now without DRM, they stand.http://mayhem-chaos.net/blog/archives/001154.html |