Thursday, August 13, 2009

On another non-list related topic, but one I think I referenced a few weeks ago, what do you think about the idea of a digital album? Compelling or not really worth the extra dosh if you can't really touch or hold it in the same way as a real album or cd?

My concern, which extends to ebooks--especially in light of the recent controversy of the Amazon Kindle deleting content it no longer thinks you should have--is less about the attractiveness of the product offering than about the issue of who actually 'owns' the music once it has been bought. In the past, this has always been the consumer, more or less. There have always been copyright restrictions but no retailer has ever walked into my house and grabbed an album, claiming that I no longer owned it. Digital downloads make this intrusion possible. Just wondering if we're heading in that direction.

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