UPDATE: ADD DVD's TO THE LIST:
Hollywood has unveiled a powerful new technology which it hopes will help kill the pirating of movies. The system relies on sound – not vision – and was unveiled at a conference held by the international DVD Forum in Paris, France last week.
NewScientist.com news service
I've been buying the same song for over 20 years now. Take any group that's been around for a while. Let's use the the Eagles for our example. You liked "Desperado" so you bought the 45. You remember those little round things. Then you bought the whole album because you got tired of changing the single song 45's. When I say album, I mean those large round black things that spun around.
Some of you true fans may have even had the 8 track. You had to be a true fan because once "Desperado" played you had to wait for it to come around again.
Then they came out with the cassette. It was great. You could fast forward, rewind and record! So you recorded the album of your choice on cassette. But you knew if you just bought the cassette it would sound better and so it was off to the mall. Now you have bought the same song 3 or 4 times. But you are not done.
CD's came out and and there went another 20 bucks to hear "Desperado" in digital audio, even thought it was recorded years ago in analog. So now we are broke, the record companies laugh at us because they sold us the same thing 5 times and we have "Desperado" in every available recorded format on the planet. If you are really insane you also have the mini disc, reel to reel, mp3, ringtone, and maybe the video disc and beta max of the live concert.
Once that whole sharing music thing hit, it was a chance for the music buyers to even things up a bit. We could now download that song we already bought 7 times! Well the game is not over yet. From the PPG:
Two of the nation's four major music companies have introduced CDs to the U.S. market that can be copied only three times and that, in some cases, prohibit the CD from being directly "ripped" onto Apple's popular iPod music player.
Critics charge that the maneuvers, which the companies say are intended to fight piracy, unfairly lump those who legally purchase music with those who don't.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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