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Originally Posted by Shemsi en Tehuti
The reason they are allowing this now is because the technology exists to prevent people from copying music anyway. Just as they forced everyone to CDs from casette tapes, to DVD's from VHS tapes, they will force people towards actually downloading the music from a known source like an iTunes, Rhapsody, and so forth. They are flooding the market with mp3 players to start the obselesence of CD players. Once people are accustomed to mp3 players, they will then cut the production of CD's and force people to download them online or from some music source. It has all been in the works for quite some time now.
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Maybe so, but I think this is more of a case of the music business playing catch-up than anything else. What made mp3s popular in the first place were peer-to-peer filesharing programs like Napster or Kazaa - both around before iTunes - and their popularity blew record companies' business models wide open. It's the technology and people's adaptation to it that has rendered CDs obsolete rather than evil corporates - for once they were behind the game. In London at least, the big music retailers (those still in that business) have been offering in-store downloading for a good while now.
To my mind what's being suggested actually makes some sense. Plus there's plenty of ways around copy-protection - and it's a complete irrelevance if you own a vinyl source recording.