Ownership of music and movie containers is futile (cont.)
I noticed that Napster was mainly filled with recent popular music of the last 4 years, plus all popular classics since the sixties. But if you look for the album "Picture Music" by Klaus Schultze, the song "Out there in the jungle" by Gruppo Sportivo, or even less current material, you will find zilch. Even the 1995 album "Homelands" by Ellis, Beggs and Howard is neither available in record shops, nor on the Web (in a reasonable sound quality). Same with movies. You will find mostly recent movies, but older material piecemeal. The same is true for ordinary stores. Star Wars can only be acquired on DVD through MovieShop in Malaysia.
The computer software branch slowly begins to arm itself against abuse. Microsoft was the first large producer to put a firm copy protection in its XP range. In the product itself, not in the media. Some protested by adopting the free Linux operating system, and they are welcome to it. The main difference with Linux software is that those programmers normally consent in the use of their products without compensation. In the CD and DVD market that is not to be expected. Funny is that the producer of DivX, a software to compress movies to a format that already has been called the "MP3 of movies", uses the same copy protection procedure as Microsoft in it's Pro version. NB: copy protection for the software, not for the movies.Here we are near a solution. What is the main point: to be able to enjoy selected music at a selected time. Via cable many radiostations, targeted at a certain musical taste or mood, enter our houses. In Europe the ether radio spectrum is full, but digital radio might bring alleviation. That does not give a full solution. I might want to hear that special performance of a piano concerto, or that specific recording of that certain session of that great jazz saxophone player, and I do not want to here the abridged edition of "Nights in White Satin", but the full version. For that I now buy CD's and DVD's. As a means, not as an end.
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