WOW a new post!
Ok, everyone know by now that I am the worlds worst at blogging. Late posts, weeks, no months between posts. Oh well, tis my nature to be that way so I will have to accept it.
Anyway, today I wanted to chat a little about technology. It seems that today there is a lot of talk about Digital Rights Management (DRM), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and what is right and wrong.
A little background on this for those of you who are not familiar with all this mumbo jumbo about music sharing, copying and stealing.
As defined by Wikipedia
Digital rights management (DRM) is the umbrella term referring to any of several technologies used to enforce pre-defined policies controlling access to software, music, movies, or other digital data and hardware. In more technical terms, DRM handles the description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading and monitoring of the rights held over a digital work. In the widest possible sense, the term refers to any such management.
The RIAA as defined by themselves
http://www.riaa.com/issues/piracy/default.asp
What I don’t understand is why the RIAA does not help support the digital media industry more than it is trying to destroy/hamper its growth and evolvement. I think if they had embraced it from the beginning and help to grow the digital music industry, there would be less pirating of music and videos, and more legit paid for copies on people’s computers.
Anyway, just something to think about.
Listening to my music freely
TMS
