Yesterday, I succumbed to the attractions of what appears to be a burgeoning
trend of highly enticing online music mixes, by buying myself a Sony
Net-enabled minidisc player.
Now, I thought, I'll be able to pick up any of those dozens of mixes which
are posted on to this site almost daily, digitally and quickly - and it'll
be great! ('Cause I can be cheesy that way sometimes.)
But then I stopped to think. Why is this happening? There is no such thing
as a free lunch (as we say here) and what interest have these massive
corporations behind making it easier to effectively pirate music, got in
doing so?
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc20020812_4809.htm?c
=bwtechaug16&n=link1&t=email
Might be the shape of things to come in this respect.
If we bear in mind that the same Sony which has cornered the market in
technology of transfering digital music from online to off-line, also has
cornered "a significant percentage (although it's problematic to be exact
for various reasons)" - according to our in-house media bod, of global
popular music sales, then we can begin to see that if these things are not
happening coincidentally, then perhaps we should be worried.
Just my ha'penny worth.
Ken
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