Tuesday, May 14, 2002

[Digital Rights Management]: Artists' Rights or Corporate Special Interests? You decide. Wait- I'll give you a hint: It's Corporate Special Interests. At the same the RIAA spins draw-droppingly bad copy like "'The artist creates the music that jolts you back in your chair, whisks you across the dance floor, or freezes you in reverie." they don't accept individual artists memberships. They even have pages titled "Its all about the music". For all of their artist-centric sloganeering, I have yet to see a viable DRM proposal that takes independent artists' rights into account.