The Clicker: Digital content -- why the sense of entitlement?

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deldredge @ Sep 22nd 2006 12:15PM

I don't understand the whole DRM debate. If people have such issues with DRM, then why not just buy cds? Who wants to pay near the price of a cd for shitty compressed audio anyway? This sense of entitlement is just bullshit that people use to try to justify not wanting to pay for something that they can get for free. I used to do the same thing.

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Brian @ Sep 22nd 2006 2:31PM

People still buy CDs for some things. However, this gets into what's called the "long tail", or the idea that the Internet provides unlimited (or close enough for most cases) distribution ability. You don't need to worry about whether Wal-Mart has your favorite (obscure) band's new disk, you don't have to leave your house to get the music, and without DRM, you wouldn't have to spend time configuring and ripping the music for your digital device. We have the first two down with things like iTunes, but people are so used to the third (doing what they want with something they paid money for) that they want it back.

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Jerry @ Sep 22nd 2006 3:44PM

I think the reason people aren't inclined the buy the CD is that the "buffet" nature of online downloading is too hard to resist. The logic is that if I only want 3 songs from a CD why should I pay $10 when I only have to pay $3?

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