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May 23, 2005
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Someone Should Have a Talk with Dave Matthews
A VC takes the Dave Matthews Band to task for the DRM on their latest album (How Not To Treat Customers):
I really have to wonder who is advising Dave Matthews on this stuff. He has a rabid fan base, the kind that the Greatful Dead had. And yet he is adopting bad practices on the digital side. He puts DRM on his CDs. And his music isn't widely available on digital music services like Rhapsody. Someone should have a talk with him about this stuff.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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1. lukethelibrarian on May 23, 2005 10:14 AM writes...
Total schizophrenia -- and their policies regarding concert recordings are another example. DMB's audio taping and trading policy follows the inspiration of the Dead, and certainly helped them to build a loyal following (along with the likes of Phish, Widespread Panic and Jason Mraz). But you can't find any DMB concerts available at such sharing sites as the Internet Live Music Archive or etree.org anymore -- at the direct request of DMB management [1] [2].
Yet you can still download SHNs of DMB concerts just as easily at http://www.antsmarching.org/downloads/.
As far as I can tell, the objection to ILMA and etree was that they allowed anonymous downloads, while sites like antsmarching require a user to register before downloading, thus fulfilling their requirement for "personal fan interaction" as a criterion for authorized trading.
Yeah, that and something else about angels and the head of a pin. Makes no sense to me.
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