Ain't gonna happen! Same with movies - trade in old DVD's for something else. I have yet to see an MP3/Digial Music used store. If this had been a CD purchase I could simply go to the used store and trade it in for credit on something else. Tons of songs! Cool! Nope, not so cool they were all re-recorded versions with a different line-up and I as a consumer had no way to know that based on the information on iTunes. One day I decided I wanted to hear some good ole rock & roll music so I saw an album on iTunes by Sha-Na-Na for 5.99. Like I say, anything you can watch or listen to can be permanently recorded in some way.Įverything changed in 1998 with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act:Ĭlick to expand.While I like the convenience of digital downloads I prefer physical copies (whether that be music or movies). I can remember attending the very first press conference introducing Blu-ray, and the head of the Blu-ray Association insisted that they had the most sophisticated copy-protection ever and that it was "essentially unbreakable." Within a month, the crazy hackers had broken it.
There's always a way around this stuff if you're willing to do the work. So it's not so much about ethics: it's about the monetary interests of big business and how they want to stick it to the public whenever possible.
A vice-president of Tivo told me in the late 1990s that they had been asked not to provide a DVD recorder in their device, but they could record "temporary" copies on hard drive just for time-shifting. I have it on good authority that this is why pressure was put on the Japanese not to market a DVD recorder with a built-in tuner in America during the 1990s.
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In their ideal future, they wanted people to have to pay a certain amount every time a song played or a TV show ran or a movie was viewed.
My take is that Hollywood was extremely pissed-off with the 1984 Supreme Court Universal/Betamax decision, and the moment that happened, they plotted to eventually find a way to prevent people from actually owning music, TV shows, and films on physical media. Click to expand.Everything changed in 1998 with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act:ĭigital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia