Music companies fear new 100-hour discs

New Scientist.com ^ | 12 March 03 | Barry Fox, Berlin

[HairOfTheDog]

Music is becoming passe' anyway. Almost nobody listens to it anymore.

IF that were true, it would be a very sad thing.

[eno_]

Actually, the high-tech industry is pushing just as hard for the DRM technology

Only some in high tech are "pushing" this. Gates is the only high tech CEO I know of that has personally embraced DRM as key goal.

For example, TI's official policy and position is that DRM should be software (i.e. it should be strictly optional). TI makes a lot of chips for phones and other mobile devices.

Lately there has been a shift away from support of DRM in the tech indusrty because they know it will cost them customers, and among the public at large because they know it is Big Brother inside their PCs, and nobody rationally would want that.

[js1138]

If these new discs have the same high-frequency roll-off the MiniDiscs have, no thanks. My MiniDisc sits in a cabinet somewhere. I like high-fidelity.

That kind of gets lost amid all the furor over downloading mp3s. But then kids don't have systems cpable of showing the difference, and they don't listen for the music; they listen for social approval.

[TomSmedley]

I am probably not the only guy who'd spend good money for the soundtrack to significant epochs in my life -- the top Billboard Top 100 songs of July, 1977, for example ...

Marketing opportunity for anyone with the resources to bundle week by week compilations?

[TomSmedley]

Lately there has been a shift away from support of DRM in the tech indusrty

Any numbers out there on how much business TurboTax has lost this year? (including mine)

[Paul C. Jesup]

Sony and Microsoft are schizo when it comes to DRM, halthe time they say they are for it, the other half the time they say they are against it.

A person gets the sense that there is a BIG internal fight going on in those two companies dealing with DRM.

Anyway as it is, neither, Microsoft nor Sony want hollywood, nor the government to tell them what to do.

Those two want to set the standards and they don't want anyone else to.

[Dead Dog]

I just hope I live long enough to attend the funeral. OB

"Sittin' on the head stone, drinking a 12 pack of beer, I'm just a waiting for somethin' to pass.." How's that for home made lyrics.

[OBone]

Good start LOL

OB