01-25-2006, 06:24 AM
kandrathe,Jan 24 2006, 08:25 AM Wrote:What if the intention of the product(music in this case) is personal use? How would it change the music industry? Well, if I were a musician I would stop selling digitally recorded music. Since the first person who obtained the music could legally distribute it to the world for free (personal use), preventing the musician from ever getting compensation for their work.
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A part of the reason behind the sharp shift towards MMOs over the last while is from the obscuration of part of the IP from the customer (i.e. the serverside code/data)
Unfortunately for music / video / books these are not 'interactive media' so there is no possible way of securing them from copying (e.g. even with the most sophisticated cp system, if it comes out of my speaker in the end, I can copy what comes out my speaker)
If software piracy became enough of a problem for the software industry to worry about, rather than using easily bypassable cp schemes, they could shift to making all such interactive software follow such a client server model, not just MMOs (with obvious issues of having server computing rather than client computing, plus latency, plus resistance to not being able to use it offline)