Murky has written about DRM, and the fact that owners of MP3 players don’t buy many digital downloads, but are very likely to buy more CDs than somebody who doesn’t own an MP3 player. Superficially, this “blows the pro-DRM arguments for music out of the water.” But it isn’t even as simple as this. Perhaps the reason why portable music player owners buy more CDs is because they like music better anyway? NB: I hate DRM.
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Murk
18 September 2006 10:25
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It may be true that I ‘overlooked’ that rebuttal, but one must consider that the music industry suing people who like music more than the average joe might not be the best way to encourage them buying music…..