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Your Music Collection is Dead, Because You Are.

Yesterday, a rumor started circulating that the actor Bruce Willis was getting ready to sue Apple over the rights to his digital music collection. The rumor was short-lived; in a matter of hours his wife denied it.

Having recently lost my sister and having used words of hers related to what should happen to your digital stuff when you die—and also having spent a lot of time over the years thinking about digital rights management and the media business—this struck a nerve. What is supposed to happen to your digital things when you die?

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Apple Finds New Way To Control You; I’m NOT Calling It Evil

Back in the day, most software was copy-protected. Software makers feared that people would copy and distribute what they had bought, so they put extra software in their software or even did controlled damage to the floppy disks that software used to come on to prevent software copying.

Clearly, the software companies were right to be concerned; people copy software, music, movies, e-books, and anything else they can copy—because they can. And if you’re an intellectual property creator you want to stop this. But copy protection and Digital Rights Management (DRM) make people angry, and with good cause; sure, they stop all that illegal copying and help combat the reduction in revenue that comes with it, but they also create problems. It was almost three years ago that I told you about the RIAA’s stance on this.

Copy Protection & DRM Make Your Customers Not Trust You

In today’s world, there are a lot of ways to get ripped off. Ever since software became a mass distribution item, companies have sought ways to protect their products from copying by people who hadn’t paid to use it. In the old days that was called “Copy Protection”, but now it’s Digital Rights Management, or DRM.

And let’s be honest: if it was you, you’d look for a way to protect your property, too. Forget the issue of many people truly not understanding that it isn’t OK to copy software (“but I bought it!“); the rampant, intentional piracy of software is and should be a concern for people who get paid for creating and selling it.

Buy Music. Seller Deletes It. Tough Luck.

Last week I commented on the debacle that Amazon.com created by reaching into Kindle devices and deleting George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. Read that story again, here, and check out the update in comments.

Bad as that was, and Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has acknowledged it was a mistake, here’s something worse: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), who watch out for the “best interests” of that business and have spent the last few years terrorizing people who . . . <ahem>, share music, have now weighed in with the opinion that if you buy music on-line, legitimately, and it’s protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, you shouldn’t expect that the computers controlling your rights should stay up and running.





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