Greatbearmd again has a cool overview article on rights and DRM and the technological advancements that brought us to this overly licensed, non-skippable and downloadlably litigious future.
Can’t wait for the second part – many articles have been written about IPR and technology in the past, not so much about where we are going now; what with Myspace, bittorrent and Dean Gray, it seems the future’s not so bleak as the Major 4 made it out to be during the scares in 2003 and 2004, it’s quite bright if you’re a small artist and use the internet to expose your talents.
And it seems with a renaissance of small guerilla gigs and truly indie bands that the bleakness was most likely to do with high expense accounts and cocaine paranoia at the Big 4 and the major media companies conglomerating than some major destruction of musical civilisation as we know it.
But we knew that anyway 😉
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