Linked by Paul Cesarini on Mon 8th Sep 2003 03:02 UTC
Thanks to a provision in the 1976 Copyright Act, U.S. law allows the first purchaser of copyrighted material (a book, CD, etc) to subsequently re-sell that item without the copyright owner's consent. In this age of online distribution and the budding, halting attempts at legitimizing it, is the the right to re-sell going to be upheld?
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>1. all music should be shareware. Just as with software, you
> want to preview, evaluate, and pass along good music to
> others--in the process of buying it.
HA!
1.) THe only form of shareware that works is crippled ware, Turn off a save option disable a key render feature , set a time limit.
2.) (THis is from memory so I may make a mistake here) on macslash.com a shareware company released an upgrade that caused their fully functional shareware to call home when upgraded. They discovered 80% of the "loyal users" never paid for the next version. Since the wanted to stay in bussiness they added cripple ware and a key for the next version. Doubled their revenue stream.
3.) How many people reading this, calling me an idiot, have paid for their gzip program ??????
4.) Without DRM I can't release crippled version of songs, with DRM everyone calls me evil. The problem is shareware only works when you give the enduser a reason to want the full version. With your version their is no carrot to upgrade, their is no reason other than to support the artist. We all know that is a lie, no one will part with their money. period.
Donaldson