Music is Killing Home Taping
Just a follow up on the last entry -- why am I wasting my efforts worrying about compensating major labels when they worry not a jot about us? That link is probably only for the very nerdishly inclined, but the plain English translation is that copy-protected CDs, manufactured and sold to you by the good folks at Sony Music, will not only secretly install software on your Windows computer, but hide deliberately obfuscated and potentially dangerous code deep at the root level of your system, with no way of removing it unless you're a righteous Windows hacker. To what end? Well, that's a little unclear... One of those "glad I'm on a Mac" moments, for sure, but considering how little concern the label has for the rights of me, the consumer, well I feel a little obligated to reciprocate. Consider my music buying policy as discussed previously to be amended with the following precondition before purchase: "It's a Sony? The right thing to do would be to steal it".
A real entry soon, he promises (should be writing more than one thing a week now, shouldn't I?), but this week has been nothing if not profoundly crazy. I've got a nearly finished in-depth article on the Enron bankruptcy to post, amongst other things. Promises, promises...
Update: More nastiness from Sony, only now they're screwing the bands as well. And I like My Morning Jacket. How I long for the days when we could all love our bright yellow Sports edition Walkmen without contemplating the evil of its makers. Vive la rock'n'roll libre!
Great reading, keep up the great posts.
Peace, JiggaDigga