Comments on: People like free: It's a good model http://perspx.com/archives/free-is-a-good-model/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:54:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: perspx http://perspx.com/archives/free-is-a-good-model/#16 perspx Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:26:14 +0000 http://oneinfinitemonkey.wordpress.com/?p=394#comment-16 > a lot of very interesting sites are still very much restricted to single countries, due to ultimately stupid laws and seedy deals between the content distributors I think that's a good point – and I think that *some* of the distributors are realising that these barriers which make their content so tightly controlled just aren't working, such as EMI which was the first label to make their content DRM-free on iTunes. And I'm hoping that a time will come when it becomes standard for this sort of thing, because in the end ventures such as Spotify actually benefit them. But yes, it is a shame that this isn't the case at current. > a lot of very interesting sites are still very much restricted to single countries, due to ultimately stupid laws and seedy deals between the content distributors

I think that’s a good point – and I think that *some* of the distributors are realising that these barriers which make their content so tightly controlled just aren’t working, such as EMI which was the first label to make their content DRM-free on iTunes. And I’m hoping that a time will come when it becomes standard for this sort of thing, because in the end ventures such as Spotify actually benefit them. But yes, it is a shame that this isn’t the case at current.

]]> By: Konrad http://perspx.com/archives/free-is-a-good-model/#15 Konrad Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:22:52 +0000 http://oneinfinitemonkey.wordpress.com/?p=394#comment-15 … alas, it doesn’t work in Germany. They don’t even want to take my money (which I’d be quite happy to give them). It’s a shame that the WWW promises something which it ultimately cannot deliver (yet): a world without frontiers. Barring slow proxies in another country, a lot of very interesting sites are still very much restricted to single countries, due to ultimately stupid laws and seedy deals between the content distributors. Spotify isn’t the only culprit, of course. I just hope that such sites will get *less*, not more, in the near future. … alas, it doesn’t work in Germany. They don’t even want to take my money (which I’d be quite happy to give them). It’s a shame that the WWW promises something which it ultimately cannot deliver (yet): a world without frontiers. Barring slow proxies in another country, a lot of very interesting sites are still very much restricted to single countries, due to ultimately stupid laws and seedy deals between the content distributors. Spotify isn’t the only culprit, of course. I just hope that such sites will get *less*, not more, in the near future.

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