If someone were to ask me about an example of wasted time and effort, I’d point to Yahoo’s partnership with Gracenote. A centralized, official database of lyrics is a solid idea. The implementation of tying into their search results is a fine, obvious idea.However, Techcrunch notes that, “copyright restrictions force them to show lyrics as an image instead of free text, to avoid scraping.” It’s inane restrictions like this that give piracy a capitalistic, if not moral, platform to flourish. So I can either go the legal route and use an end product which is almost completely inferior to the illegal route of finding lyrics on one of a million fan sites. My question as a consumer in a capitalistic society, is why? What’s my motivation?
