Music is primal, from the beginning of time man has been making it. It transcends technology and truly connects the human condition. Yet DRM threatens that connection.

I have no problems with record companies securing their revenue streams but get a grip, think different. Music is a social experience, music I part of everyone and when DRM limits my enjoyment of music I get pissed off.

There I was, talking to a girl (shock, horror!) on Windows Live Messenger, and Windows Live Messenger was listening to my iTunes, adding the title of the song to my screen name. The girl, she asks me to send her the song: she wants to join in, and hear the music. But the restrictive nature of DRM stopped that. Stopped a connection, maybe even stopped a relationship. And that is the problem of Digital Rights Management.

Its human nature to share things, share experiences, food, even music. So let me do that. Come up with a DRM system that works with everything and lets me SHARE music.

I don’t want to cheat any record company out of any royalties; I’m just sure there has to be a better way.

Consider this, a DRM system that lets me share songs with my friends, I can send a file and when they open it, a box comes up and says, “Hey, this is Ross’s song, he paid of it. You can listen to it five times then you have to pay for it”.

She has the music file and we have shared, you could take that a step further and add in another option, one that lets Ross pay for it and send it as a gift.

And I have another idea, but you will have to listen to that. Introducting the audio blog, more about that in my next post.

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