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Adding Insult To Injury: Now The Music Biz Starts Shipping Copy Protected CDs
from the thanks dept
Another link submitted by AMetamorphosis talking about how the music industry is about to start pushing copy protected music on many new CDs in the US. There have been a few trials on the technology in the US, but now they're expanding the program widely. This is, of course, the latest strategy by the industry to shoot themselves in the foot. Offer me a product that does even less than before making it worth less to me? No thanks. I won't buy it. I thought the industry wanted to increase the sale of CDs. All this does is decrease it. Like the problems with product activation, adding copy protection digital rights management to CDs does nothing to solve the problem. People who want to copy the music will still figure out how. However, the rest of us who just want to use the music in legitimate, non-infringing ways, will have our lives made more difficult. Suing your customers and then offering them a worse product. What genius thought that up as a way to increase sales?
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Who buys CDs anyway, these days?
Does the RIAA really think actions like this are going to keep yesterday's technology (CDs) from becoming obsolete?
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Re: Who buys CDs anyway, these days?
www.boycott-riaa.com
... and YES, I DID order my bumper sticker and its a " stand - up - ready - to - fight - time " when I actually put a bumper sticker on my over priced transporatation.
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Market Research
Copy protection=no file sharing=no radio play=no CD sales (?!) Sounds like a good stategy to me.
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These are not CDs
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I do
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Buy Used CDs
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Re: Buy Used CDs
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They already do this here
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Re: They already do this here
Congrats to you Mate for having the balls to order from us Yanks ... we might be losing our freedom slowly, but some of us are keeping up the fight !
Cheers
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