You gotta fight! For your right!...
Jun. 23rd, 2004 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
