Music are free

What happen when informations are free,
Data, music, images and video are totally free and cost no money. Yep let the music be free is Steve Jobs said "Why join the Navy if you can be a Pirate".

Quote: Pesan asli oleh: queen_thegreat7 HIMBAUAN UNTUK PARA BALADEWA (yang mengaku Baladewa) Saya pikir... yang ngaku Baladewa, ya jangan jadi balamaling yang akan merugikan pihak DEWA. Kalaupun ingin punya versi mp3 lagu2 DEWA dengan mendownload dari berbagai source, ya sebagai Baladewa seharusnya punya (beli) dong, album asli DEWA ! (kaset/cd) Jangan sampai kasetnya gak punya tapi koleksi mp3 bajakannya lengkap! walah... itu namanya merugikan DEWA yang kita cintai. ~love you all, love DEWA~

First of all, lagu-lagu Dewa banyak yang jiplakan dari lagu barat.
How could someone that pirate idea from someone else is crying about piracy, Nobody buys cassette anymore it is even harder to find the cassette player than to find cd player. Standard feature for portable DVD and PC player that plays CD audio files and everybody had this.

Dewa benefit from piracy and I don't need to get technical on this, Dhani is running his entetainment scheme through live shows, sponsorship and endorsement.

Music will be free, whether anyone like it or not. Rite now I'm downloadin podcast from www.urb.com and by the way, it is so much easier to copy than to down load, so you just cannot stop p2p and please do not be greedy about it.

This is Steve Jobs commenting on Wall Street Journal

Read the whole thing yourself. But the meat is here:

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven't worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. Thatb

In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves. The music companies sell the vast majority of their music DRM-free, and show no signs of changing this behavior, since the overwhelming majority of their revenues depend on selling CDs which must play in CD players that support no DRM system.

So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none.

GIVE IT TO ME!