Jazz Odyssey

Damian Kulash Jr. who fronts OK Go had an op-ed piece published in yesterday’s New York Times in which he weighed in on the issues of copy protection and DRM. Read the full article here. Inspirational quotes:

…copy protection is guaranteed to fail because it’s a house of cards. No matter how sophisticated the software, it takes only one person to break it, once, and the music is free to roam and multiply…

The truth is that the more a record gets listened to, the more successful it is. This is not just our megalomania, it’s Marketing 101: the more times a song gets played, the more of a chance it has to catch the ear of someone new. It doesn’t do us much good if people buy our records and promptly shelve them; we need them to fall in love with our songs and listen to them over and over. A record that you can’t transfer to your iPod is a record you’re less likely to listen to, less likely to get obsessed with and less likely to tell your friends about.