Not a new revelation.

[theweaselking]

Paying for DRM'd content is idiotic, and people who do so are stupid.

Comments

[elffin.livejournal.com]

Or are merely going to join a class-action suit.

I foresee a lot of lawyers eating MSN for lunch.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

I disagree with your sweeping generalization. If there is some piece of music I appreciate, and a DRM-infested site makes a believable claim to at least somewhat compensate the composer / artists etc, I am happy to buy from them. And then download the corresponding MP3 from a friendly torrent site as needed to actually play the music.

This is not to say that I'm not stupid, but it would take something else to prove it, I dare say.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

At that point, you're not paying for DRM'd content. You're paying for content and then not getting the DRM.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

And supporting a pointless middleman. If you're gonna do that, why not, I dunno, mail a check directly to the artist instead?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. Instead of paying your dollar to the DRM morons, why not download the music immediately and send your *whole* dollar directly to the artist with a quick explanation? That way, the artist gets MORE money, and the DRM moron hopefully goes out of business.

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

I'd like that idea, but there would need to be a direct way to contact the artist and actually get it through without it being lost among the dross or captured by the recording company that's 'handling' the artists fan communications. Blogs, myspace pages, etc may work. But big name ones seem pretty insulated.