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Music industry changes its tactics
Posted by Ernest Miller on Monday, October 07 @ 21:59:08 EDT
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Stivka writes "For one week they will post a rather large collection of songs of well known artists (including Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Dido and Elvis Presley) for free download. The "Digital Download Day" was started last Thursday by the initiative of OD2, a UK company. The hope is that by allowing downloads from legitimate websites this will somehow promote and encourage consumers to use them instead of Kazaa and Morpheus. So far the initiative has proven to be a success, as evidenced by amount of trafic generated by websites joining in the initiative.

More information about Digital Download Day is available here.

This information appeared in an article by Stephanie Bodoni published by Legal Media Group [reg. req.] (Change of tune in fight against music piracy).

Submitted by Steve V. Krishtul, New York Law School

Note:

Note: The Register has another take on the promotion (Music biz strikes back with free, DRM 'padlocked' downloads)."

 
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Re: Music industry changes its tactics (Score: 0)
by Anonymous (Name Withheld on Advice of Counsel) on Tuesday, October 08 @ 01:57:05 EDT
It's nothing more than one small baby step in the right direction.

They are still paranoid about piracy.

By releasing it in MS's DRM format they are excluding a total of 17% of all desktop and workstation computers in existence in the USA. Since Windows Media Player 9 is required to play these, what about Mac users or Linux users like me?! And so much for fair use, since we can't transfer them to another PC.

Of course MS is pleased about this and will try thier hardest to make sure any future events like this use Ms's formats.


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