French lawmakers approved an online copyright bill Tuesday that would require Apple to break open the exclusive format behind its market-leading iTunes music store and iPod players. The draft law - which also sets new penalties for music pirates - would force Apple, Sony, and others to share proprietary copy-protection technologies so that rivals can offer compatible services and players. An analyst expects that Apple is more likely to leave the French market, than to open its format in France. My take: Just buy CDs. They play in every CD player, and have no weird restrictions. In case you forgot, CDs look like this.
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Member since:2006-02-06
Finally someone with some artistic sense in the group. I found someone here I have to agree with.
But it is really hard to fight that instant gratification culture that we have now. Its the MTv generation, they say... sad.
What would it be to listen to The Wall, Sgt. Peppers or Tommy in a "per Music" fashion as people try to sell it now...
Well... Sorry for that... just felt like speaking it off my chest.
Member since:2006-01-02
Yes, it's sad, and the problem with the culture is acceptance of it. It is much more a business thing than an artist thing, as well. Off the top of my head, Lateralus comes to mind as a moderately recent and popular album that was made to be listened to from start to finish.
If there are only two or three good songs, then I don't buy the album*. I also don't buy lossy DRM music. As soon as tracks could be separated, there were people who only listened to a few--often, though, that few could be half the album (take a typical Steppenwolf or Pearl Jam album, FI).
IMO, as long as there are artists out there making real works, there will be those of us to buy them--we just have to have a way to be told they exist and be given a taste 
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* unless those two or three are huge: Passion Play comes to mind
Member since:2006-01-02
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2006-03-22
Does anyone else view this as a sad direction for music to take? The tracks on a CD (from a reasonable artist) are not a random selection of songs...they constitute parts of a complete entity/experience. The current instant-gratification culture seems to have lost any previous depth.
Errmm....sorry if that was a bit of a diversion.