Upgrading technology will probably make more difference than you think.

Upgrading technology will probably make more difference than you think.

Posted Jun 12, 2006 7:55 UTC (Mon) by shapr (subscriber, #9077)
Parent article: The UK Parliament on DRM

I still have CDs I purchased before 1990.
Since I can't expect desktop software to work sixteen years later, the advertising & package industry is trying to force me to upgrade every time they change technologies, right?
(From my viewpoint the musicians are the music industry, the people who are pushing encryption of content don't actually produce content)
Seems to me that means that everytime Windows changes ABI versions, and every time the ad&package people find a new crypto flavor, I'll need to buy a new format for music that I already own.

As for the cultural losses, the simple explanation is...
Nowadays you can find a shoebox full of old photos from your (grand)parents but twenty(forty) years from now your (grand)kids won't be able to explore your music collection.

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