tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36733892.post1624950109327886334..comments2024-03-22T11:13:26.808+00:00Comments on Life is a Mind Bending Puzzle: I want to watch it nowmbphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037758442729422620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36733892.post-56080087544679483632011-05-06T14:51:16.584+00:002011-05-06T14:51:16.584+00:00Yep, you've highlighted why Itunes even came i...Yep, you've highlighted why Itunes even came into existence. Apple owes it's very existence to the Web and music sales. M$ would have easily squashed Apple long ago. It's mind-boggling how averse the music and movie industries are to what's happening all around them. How on earth did they miss out on something so obvious?<br /><br />It's almost ideological in that they reject the notion of downloads simply because there is a chance of sharing without them knowing.<br /><br />The music studios, unlike movie studios, is doing a great job of fast-tracking their own demise with the huge amounts of aggressive suing and blanket blaming pretty much every consumer of being a pirate.<br /><br />I guess it's a bit like the music shops themselves - total and utter lack of coordination. There could have been a much better system of total cataloguing and distribution even before the Web.<br /><br />The music industry has only itself to blame. All credit to Apple for taking up the obvious.<br /><br />Not that I would ever use Itunes myself for the reasons you've already highlighted. But the DRM is more to do with Apple getting access to studio catalogues me thinks.<br /><br />Point is that even this crippled DRM method is better than what the industry itself ever produced. ie: A total void!<br /><br /><br />SolbrightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com