You gotta fight! For your right!...

[greatbear]

...to keep recording industry-sanctioned viruses off of your computer.

When will these idiots learn? You are only pissing off Joe Consumer with these tactics. This will do nothing to stop 'real' CD pirates/counterfeiters and will do nothing to stop the 'free trade' of music among internet users. We all know by now that the music and movie industry wants to control every aspect of their 'content' usage. It's obvious that the ultimate desire is to have you pay for every 'instance' of a song, be it on a CD, on your PC, on you iPod, etc. You know "I'm sorry that you cannot 'rip' your new CD to play on you PC, however we do offer the same CD tracks for your PC at the low price of $0.99 per track...". Bastages. And they wonder why CD sales continue their downward fall.

This is yet another aspect of rampant corporate greed running amok in this country. Outsourcing, layoffs, offshoring manufacturing, fees and penalties for everything in the banking and finance industry, private information being sold for corporate profit, consumer rights being taken away constantly, rampant litigation for little good reasons, etc. I don't know why people sit idly by and let these sort of things grow and flourish. One day I see it reaching a head, and it wont be pretty. You will hear stories of CEOs and other executives being capped by those who's lives have been essentially destroyed by their greedy policies.

They cant say they didnt have it coming.

Comments

[artistik1.livejournal.com]

the end is near

[leatherotter.livejournal.com]

that's just outrageous. I'm completely speechless...

[texaspenguin.livejournal.com]

From what I understand, the new Velvet Revolver CD (Contraband) does something similar (i.e. prevents ripping although there are ways to circumvent it).

I refuse to buy CDs in large quantites anymore. I'm a leech, I won't deny it, but all this crap pisses me off and it's clear they won't stop putting this crap on CDs. Even if I do stop downloading.

[fredneckteddy.livejournal.com]

Have you considered running for President? ;)

[fredneckteddy.livejournal.com]

awww...shucks! Thanks! same to you! :)

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Rawr is right!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Am I complaining? nooo, I'm not complaining!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Am I complaining? nooo, I'm not complaining!

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. That makes ME wanna go out right now and buy one. Hell, two at that rate! 9_9

I think they clearly went about how to go up against piracy all wrong and made all of its potential customers out to be thieves -- of course they're going to be the death of themselves!

[jacked01.livejournal.com]

I would love to see/hear some comments from the artists themselves, I know one member ofthe band is really above and beyond when it comes to free speech, I just would like to hear his comments on this in his own hippy tree hugging liberal, Llama loving way

Here lemme help ya knock off a few myself :P

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you read about this, but the newer DVD home recorders will have circuitry that will prevent the recording of certain TV shows that will be flagged. Stuff like Pay for View, HBO series, etc...

WHY ISN'T ANYONE FIGHTING THIS??


The Supreme Court ruled that everyone had a right to record on a VCR for personal use DECADES ago. Why is the fact that a DVD recorder make the networks think that somehow this rule doesn't apply anymore?

in simplest terms...

[disccub.livejournal.com]

Its greed! record/music industry (and movie industry) folks want to make as much money as possible. The thought the people would want to share music and expand a performer's fan base (and possibly increase future sales) is beyond them. To me, its no different than the crackdown several years ago on places that used to rent cd's and records. It was frowned upon by the industry because the artist and the company did not get any money from the sale of the rental.