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Posted by chris riley on Friday, October 14 @ 18:30:41 EDT
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More and more music CDs are being released with digital rights management technology designed to make it difficult for a consumer to make copies of the CD, to listen to the CD on a computer, and to share the music with others. And, as readers of this blog are well aware, the DMCA enforces these technologies through the legal system, which has the potential to create a sort of super-copyright law at the whim of the producers. To make an analogy to public choice theory, the DRM/DMCA combination has concentrated benefits (music producers) and distributed costs (music consumers). This results in high motivation for the producers and relatively low motivation for the consumers. Well, for some consumers at least. Others...
Free Culture @ NYU protests DRM
At the very least, music consumers must learn about DRM in their products so that they can make informed decisions and keep the market properly competitive.
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