Re:HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music
by Touche on Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:37AM
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I hate the "have your cake and eat it too" mentality. If you want to control distribution don't put things on the Internet. This isn't 1999, what happens when you put stuff on the internet is well-known at this point. If you're unhappy with it, start a new network that has DRM baked-in so this isn't an issue.
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Much of the music available of on youtube was not released by the artists.
If the statement were "we want to make access to freely available music easier" (and we cannot police how it got to our sources) - sure. Go with it!
Even if the artist chooses not to distribute digitally, it may well appear online in some digital format anyway.
Only if they are creating art that is inherently digital.