1. Major labels are like big ships, takes a lot of energy to steer them in a new direction, and change happens slowly.

Posted at 10:29AM on Jan 18th 2007 by thund3rbox

2. Good stuff here - thanks. I have a video on my music industry predictions for 2007 that also addresses the toast-ness of DRM, see http://www.gerdleonhard.net/2007/01/gerd_leonhard_m.html. I also have a few podcasts on this juicy subject, at www.gerdradio.com. I think you guys may enjoy this.

Posted at 5:25AM on Jan 19th 2007 by Gerd Leonhard

3. do you remmember the days when you would sit for hours next to your stereo, just waiting to hear that hot new song you loved, waiting with baited breath and itchy trigger finger to hit the record button? come on admitt it!
seems to me the recording industry had no qualms back then about you tapping a song off the radio. no beef with recording device manufactures making equippment capable of doing just that. no problem whatsoever with you buying a tape and later a cd and making a copy to share with a friend. hell, this is how we buit our collections back in the day! remmember?
but not today my friends. no, today they are the most greedy bastards on the face of the planet. they make BIG OIL look like 'THE MARCH OF DIMES'.
not that i have a problem with BIG OIL mind you, just trying too make a point.
has it ever ocurred to the recording industry why it took cd's so long to overcome analog tapes? apparently not! you see, they could not add DRM to analog, which is why they pushed cd's so hard. but what makes no sense is, now that cd's are the dominant life form they still are merely toying with the idea of adding DRM to the discs! why is that?
i'll tell ya why, because in poll after poll, they see their customers are dead set against it, thats why. that coupled with the fact that cd's are more than twice the price they used to be even though the technology is older than my kids! 26years old as a matter of fact. this leaves them hanging on to a very tenuous thread at best and they know that their piracy problem would increase ten fold.
now then, too be sure, i have no problem with buying my music just as long as i can make a back up copy. or even burn a copy to play in my car, boombox or home stereo. the reason being, that i have only recently made the transition from analog tape to IPOD 30GB VIDEO. never was one for cd's. it just was'nt right for me, when you consider how many times you paid almost twice as much for the cd, than the tape and the album you thought would be great based on the one song you heard turns out to be a stinker. that sucks, now doe'snt it?!
with ITUNES i can control the music. which is how it should be.
no more buying whole albums that posses a few good songs but are generally weak. THAT IS SO COOL.
so in conclusion, digital music WAY COOL. drm DEMON SPAWN FROM HELL.
thanks for listening. ORION.

Posted at 1:01PM on Feb 25th 2007 by ORION