Another cross-post, this one from MobHappy on how the music industry is setting mobile music up to fail by instituting pointless and irritating DRM.
“You’ve got the record industry bitching about how file sharing — and now CD burning — is destroying their industry, therefore they need stronger DRM. As is par for the course, they’ve got it backwards: what’s going to destroy their businesses is DRM.”
I’ve been saying this for a long time. Everyone wants a piece of the money to the point that they’re destroying all the value to the customer. No value… no purchases.
I own the cd… why should I pay you again for the ringtone?
I own the m4p… why should I pay you again to play it on my phone?
No thanks.
See ya. And I wouldn’t wanna be ya.