Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Will CDs die..or not??

Today, we talked about the music industry at the first half of the class.
And Professor asked us if the music industry will disappear or not.

My answer is..
I guess at least in Japan, it won't die for couple of decades.
The reason why I think this way is that Japan has so many CD rental shops.
The main CD rental shops are TSUTAYA and GEO.


They lend us CDs, Albums, and DVDs for limited duration (one day, two day, a week, two weeks and so on).
Therefore, many Japanese use these shops so that they can get higher quality sound than just download from the Internet, and the price of lending is also cheap.
I don't know if the U.S. has these kind of rental shops a lot, but if there are, I think CDs won't die.

Nowadays, TSUTAYA and GEO started delivery service of CDs and DVDs.
We can purchase on online so that we don't need to go to the store.
It's more convenient than before!
This service uses the Internet, but it doesn't harm the music industry or the rental shops.
Isn't it an awesome thing? :)

Personally, I hope the music industry won't die.
I want the high quality of the sound to remain...

4 comments:

  1. Mika-- Do people rent these CDs and then copy the music on them onto their home computers? Or are the CDs "copy protected" with Digital Rights Management code?

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  2. They can copy these CDs into their iTunes or their own MP3 databases. Can we copy even CDs are protected by Digital Rights Management code?

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  3. You probably couldn't copy a CD into iTunes if it was protected by DRM code.

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  4. Then these CDs are not protected by DRM code.
    I can copy them into iTunes! :)

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