Re: [OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on DRM]
Robin Whittle[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: . [lots of good stuff about the music business clipped] I think this is an accurate analysis of a really sad situation. Like King Canute, the record companies are devoting most of their thinking and resources to holding back the tide. As Peter points out, Canute actually did have the clue that the record companies don't. One place I lived in New Jersey was in Sea Bright, which is a sand bar just south of Sandy Hook beach. Two hundred years ago, it was an island, and it's trying to become an island again. The Army Core of Engineers, however, keeps trying to tell the tides to stop, primarily by pouring a few million dollars worth of cement into the sea wall and road foundations every decade or so. In some sense, it may be worthwhile, since the value of the houses that they're protecting is higher than that, but while I knew I was renting the house I was living in, some of my neighbors their thought they owned something other than a bit of drifting sand. Perhaps the record companies need to see what equivalents of pilings or surfboards they can find for their business models.
Re: [OT Canute] Re: [LINK] [Fwd: Interesting KPMG report on DRM]
At 01:43 PM 10/7/2002 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: Perhaps the record companies need to see what equivalents of pilings or surfboards they can find for their business models. Eventually they will have to come to terms with the fact that what technology (e.g., Thomas Edison and the phonograph) can grant, technology (the Internet, digital reproduction and P2P) can take away. But that day still looks to be far off. They've got lots of money and are no where near thinking about throwing in the towl. [I]t is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. --Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering
