Sons Of Napster Have No Future
from the the-music-industry-will-win dept
David Coursey is predicting that all the Napster wannabes will be dead soon as the music industry will finally come up with copy protection schemes that are "good enough". Sure, some hackers will figure out ways to crack the systems, and there will be some communities that trade music freely - those will all be too complicated (and too "illegal") for most people to get involved with. The depressing thing about this (assuming it does come true) is it would be a real loss for consumers. Here's a technology that gives people the chance to hear music they might not ever hear otherwise, and thanks to the recording industry's greed, it won't happen.
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