Imagine if music was cloud storage only, so you simply were unable to play a recording ever without an internet connection.. so not only do you have to pay for the rights to play it, but also pay your ISP for the right to download it, over and over again. ..which allows the the companies to track and analyse the whole planets listening/reading tendancies..
Digital rights management makes me feel ill. Freaking asshats.
That is an understatement really. Have you heard about the people who get their self-recorded stuff removed from YouTube by "musical rights societies" because a couple of seconds in their interpretations match those of some of the great pianists?