2006-11-14 Ramblings
Tuesday, November 14, 2006Adrian is lamenting the fact that iTunes has turned him into a criminal . Personally I think it's more of a case of discovering that what you bought is not what you thought it was. To buy into iTunes is to accept their control over your music; you do not own it. It is clearly inferior, despite being convenient, to buying a physical CD.
Tonight on the tele we had Glenn Wheatley saying they don't like people videoing concerts from their camera phones because "We just don't like it because we can't control it". I'm sure that sounds reasonable in his own head.
Australia, as part of the free trade agreement with the US, is set to create new laws that will make videoing a concert with your camera phone a criminal offence. I mean, give me a break. The videos are very lo-fi, are only short snippets and they are not being sold. Where is the justification for laws like this? Is it just me or is this simply a global protection racket ?
Why are consumers of digital media treated as second class citizens? They are offered only inferior products, have their legal rights restricted and are branded as criminals for harmless activities. And I'm not talking about pirating music, I'm talking about perfectly legal activities. Well, they have been until now.
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dead set! just when you think your government can't get any more retarded. do they think that I wouldn't go to a concert because I can simply watch a recording _from a mobile phone_? cmon.
a friend of mine recorded a 360 pan from the U2 concert in sydney which came out mostly as blurry screaming people and overexposed stage lighting. It could only be regarded as a momento of the event.