Digital Rights Management (DRM) and its place in the music chain

You cannot understand or fully appreciate 'digital rights management' without considering at least two musical recording formats before the digital music format MP3.

With a series of frank admissions its relatively simple to rack up a slew of copyright infringement offences. Your twelve years old and your Sony Ghetto blaster has a twin tape deck..It came factory shipped with the ability to copy from one deck to another. Yet each Our Price (remember them) bought cassette came with a 'copying is a crime' disclaimer. That in tandem with my penchant for spending my evenings sitting & listening for the song I liked to be played on the radio so I could record it on blank cassette. Only to have the nauseating Dj jabber over the end of track..

Move on from that and CD to cassette copying was the next method of collating free music.With some strategically placed cello tape borrowing albums from friends or ahem the town library, it was high times..

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