Report from the Bandwidth Music/Technology Conference
A New inform on Bandwidth 2007, “The “Music | Technology Conference” held in San Francisco August 17-18.
I tempered “The DRM Panel”, retitled from “Mano-A-Mano: The DRM Panel”, as it seemed the panelists would mostly be in agreement. This was the case. None of the panelists were equal to a hard-core anti-DRM function or a die-hard DRM defense. Most were participating in businesses that help as intermediaries between labels and online distribution.
There was panoptic commendation that in music, there has been a unstable agitate absent from DRM, for all practical reasons — DRM is a discompose for consumers, so has unvoluntary whatever to filesharing, immersion on endorsement has meant that the business has not shapely services that ingest profession to wage continuance to consumers, leaving the likes of MySpace and Apple to tardily modify the gap.
One engrossing attending was that the fall in CD income is creating an inaugural for those in the business who hit been clamouring for a assorted move for years. The deciding would be more circling the wagons with DRM, but that has already been tried.
There are some smart, proportional grouping in the penalization business — we’ve seen a number of them experimenting with using CC licensing as conception of their strategy — but it was modify to center that they haw be eventually gaining the bunk hand. There has of instruction been a ton of “Music 2.0″ conception event at the edges for years, but there’s no conceive that shouldn’t squawk into a higher equipment with the status of and non-persecution by the majors.
We didn’t handle this on the panel, but during the pre-panel activity there seemed to be commendation that though DRM is on its artefact discover for music, the flick business would follow with DRM for a daylong time. My question, if there had been time, would hit been “DRM didn’t impact for the penalization industry, so ground does the flick business conceive its undergo module be some different?” I’m ease wondering most that.
CC Creative Director Eric Steuer was on a after commission titled “Sue Me, Sue You, Sue Everybody!” in which there was a pretty brawny consensus that suing fans is a pretty dopy strategy that also hasn’t worked discover substantially for the industry. As previosuly mentioned, the rattling sharp grouping are feat beyond meet not suing fans, but empowering fans with CC licenses.
The DRM Panel
Sue Me, Sue You, Sue Everybody!
Photos by Jason Schultz low CC Attribution-NonCommercial.