I am continually fascinated and interested in issues that sit at the crossroads of both moral choices and technology advancements. I can't help but be fascinated with how the two issues converge at the intersection of the music and movie industries.
Of course, as everyone knows, a serious problem has persisted now for more than a decade: some tech-savvy young people have wrongly stolen intellectual property (digital music and movies) -- while the music and movie industries are complicit for having failed to embrace making available the products consumers yearn for.
An
editorial in today's New York Times gives us hope that a solution may soon be reached. Apple has finally decided that it might be a good idea to allow people who "own" a digital song to actually
copy it. (gasp, shock, cough, gasp) This is a win/win, because music lovers -- who want to take advantage of this feature -- will pay an additional price.
Unfortunately, while the music industry is finally catching on, the movie industry -- which has been slumping for years now -- refuses to see the light. A software known as RealDVD would allow movie lovers to make personal copies of their movies (just as in the old days, VCR owners could make copies of VHS tapes). Sadly,
as RedState reported recently Hollywood is predictably acting like a dinosaur, and fighting this tooth and nail.
Losers...