[Fmpro] P2P Piracy

[Eric Goetz]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM, John Stone <buddhastone at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> If I can purchase calling time for my cell phone using the code attached
> to that sale receipt, and only with that number to enable my phone to
> increase airtime minutes, why can't I purchase a CD and enable its use with
> the code printed on my receipt?


What if you lost your phone, or switched wireless providers?  Best case you
may have to re-enter in all your authorization codes for all of your music.
Worst case, you would have to repurchase all of your music.

And see my other point about sharing.  Most people purchase music to share
it.  Think back to the days of making mix tapes for your friends as a
teenager.

> If not a good model for DRM? Give me something that will work, please.

Blanket license administered by the PRO's.  By the way, there's no reason we
can't do both (DRM and blanket-license), but my prediction is that
copy-protected music will never succeed.  There's just no demand for it.

Eric