The Digital Home Video: The RIAA never made sense in the first place

In this episode, I discuss why the RIAA never made sense and its policies are the dumbest I've heard in a long time.

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[ofmyony]

I agree, I have not bought songs because I can not play them where I want. The new Zune has a feature where you can listen to a music station and hear and buy it right there. No need to go through all the trouble to find the song it is a impulse buy that is enjoyable and worthwhile and hopefully with no DRM so I can enjoy it anywhere and on any device it want. If it has DRM forget it period.

I think it is a good business model, make it easy to buy, easy to use with no restrictions. I have proposed this same business model to online music streaming companies so people can discover music online and on a impulse buy the music right there. But instead the music industry wants to bleed these companies dry by charging them large amounts of money when they should be loving them like the have with the radio stations in the past. The music industry has a gold mine in their sites and they want to bite that hand that feeds them, so all I can say is dump DRM invest in a new business model, do not charge stations huge amounts of money to broadcast your music so people can discover it, stop suing people for something that is a result of your own greed and lack of insight, and pay the artist what they deserve. Everyone wins the rest will take care of itself

[donsms]

Excellent points Don,the music and movie companies are just trying to keep their outdated but lucrative industries in their control as long as possible.This too shall pass and a new way of selling music and movies will finally take over when these dinosaurs in control are replaced by forward thinking people.