I’ve always been interested in the DRM saga of music. I’ll probably re-publish a few of the entries I wrote for the Element 113 blog. I definitely don’t support the stealing of music, but having an online database of music files to access has a lot of advantages. For instance, I bought the Shins album ”Oh Inverted World” on iTunes a few years back. The files were never quite right. They were corrupt somehow. And iTunes always saw them as “unknown artist” files. And it would duplicate the files when I did an iTuens sync. There was just something wrong with them…So I went to the torrents and re-downloaded the album. Deleted the officially bought version, with a version that worked. I’ve had to do that with a few other purchased albums that got corrupt.
Now we’ve got U2’s No Line On The Horizon leaked to the world a good month before the official release. Let’s see how long the links stay valid.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZSTB9PM5
What does this mean for the music business. Is this a violation of the trust that consumers will “do the right thing?” Or will just download the album and tell all there friends, “don’t buy it, you can get it free here”? I don’t know. But I did download it. However I also pre-bought the deluxe version on iTunes a few weeks ago. So I guess I did both.