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Nobody will admit to actually liking DRM. Consumers feel retailers are treating them like potential copyright criminals. Retailers say they use DRM only because the labels make them. The labels blame us, the customers, for being such filthy music pirates. And around we go. Steve Jobs even swore that he would de-DRM every track on iTunes if only the labels would let him. (Jobs did broker a deal with one label, EMI, to sell DRM-free music, with higher audio quality. But it'll cost ya: DRM-free tracks will go for $1.29 vs. the standard 99�.) Amazon...
...iTunes killer. There's no way Amazon will match the silky-smooth user experience of the iTunes store--I mean, interface design and hardware integration are what Apple does--or the depth of its song selection. DRM-free music is a nice perk, and the freedom-loving anti-copyright geekerati will be all over it, but there are more important things in life. And Amazon doesn't need to kill iTunes anyway. Amazon's music store will be a handy tool for setting up package deals and promotional giveaways and such, but that...
...clear: most of us really are criminals. Almost everybody owns a little stolen music. But a little piracy can be a good thing. Sure, O.K., I ripped the audio of the Shins' Phantom Limb off a YouTube video. But on the strength of that minor copyright atrocity, I legally bought two complete Shins albums and shelled out for a Shins concert. The legit market feeds off the black market. Music execs just need to figure out how to live with that. (And count themselves lucky. When it comes to movies, consumers actually do act like hardened criminals. The real pirate...
...Google’s initiative has been mired in lawsuits from copyright holders, though Harvard is only scanning works that are in the public domain...
...come back to reality," iParadigms CEO John Barrie says of the copyright suit. "These aren't nuclear-missile secrets." Papers are being archived at the same time as testing sites install cell-phone detectors to keep students from text-messaging answers or finding them online. One result of the high-tech cheating wars: paranoia. McCabe says fewer students are filling out his anonymous surveys. "Students started accusing me of getting their IP address," he says...