Good news for Creative Commons?

Good news for Creative Commons?

Posted Jun 27, 2005 20:33 UTC (Mon) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
Parent article: Supreme Court rules against file swapping (ZDNet)

Device manufacturers could deal with this by going whole hog Evil DRM -- or they could actively promote non-infringing ways to get content. Throwing some money at CC-friendly artists would be cheaper and less user-hostile than the DRM alternative.

I'm sure most CC-friendly bands would come up with a reasonable deal to pre-fill devices with an eclectic selection of music. Magnatune and Hana Micron, a Samsung spinoff, are already doing this.

This may be remembered as the day the record industry failed to learn the proprietary software industry's rule that a "pirate" copy is not as good for the company as a sale, but better than a legal copy of a free alternative.

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