Darren Landrum wrote: >> well sadly Peter Gabriel has gone the way of being one of the big >> supporters of DRM and 'corrupt' CDs... discs with copy-prevention >> technology... 'Up' was promoted with the release of windoze media >> player 9 which is their latest effort in spyware-enabled locked down >> audio :-(.... >> >> m~ > > > So, I've been buying up every Gabriel-era Genesis CD, and he thinks I'm > a pirate? > if you share them with your friends or make personal backups, yup... > It makes me wonder what other famous and tech-savvy musicians, like Alan > Parsons or Todd Rundgren, think of things like DRM. thats an interesting one... opinion is divided as far as i have read... Apple seems to be avoiding DRM for now, so apple-based musicians are interesting to talk to.... Sound on Sound did a scathing review of DRM from a pro-audio point of view... i think it was the December issue.. probably online now http://www.sospubs.co.uk/ > > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I needed to get this off my chest. :-) heh... dont worry... well, hmm, i better not comment too much since if anyone gets me started on this topic i'll be in danger of dragging the entire list down with OT post.... ;-) m~ -- iriXx www.iriXx.org copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom? info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.copyleftmedia.org.uk _ ( ) ascii ribbon against html email X / \ cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp *** stopping make sense ***
