[mythtv-users] DRM Music on it's last legs - Another predictioncomes true ahead of schedule.

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Tom Dexter wrote:

>> From: Brian Wood
>>
>> I'm not sure how they are going to measure trhe piracy rates,
>>
>
> Yea, that was the part that bothers me.  There simply isn't any way  
> they
> could measure the affect.

They're going to measure it in sales. If sales go up, less people are  
pirating. I know that's not true, but they will pretend it is. After  
all, increasing sales is the only thing that matters. "We had 500,000  
customers last quarter and 600,000 this quarter. 100,000 less people  
are pirating music." rather than saying, "We encouraged 100,000 more  
people to buy our music because we actually put out a good record."