Music Industry Executives Baffled By Decreased Sales of CDs
Read Rip van Hoodwink to learn from Charles how Macromedia has created a broken CD (with bad data on the music tracks, etc) that then requires the installation of their software that prevents ripping.
While I fully support property rights, I realize that peeing in the soup is not the way to sell more soup. Once folks catch wind of this system and the usage of said system starts showing up on more and more CDs, I predict that CD sales will decline — even more than before.
I rip tracks from CDs onto my computer at work, in order to listen to music that suits my mood at the time. I don’t maintain a huge inventory of CDs at work, but keep them at home. I also rip them to listen to them on my MP3 player that I have on my Palm during workouts. All perfectly legal activities that will be denied with this new hare-brained (or is it hair-brained) idea. I’ve disabled auto-play on my computers — in part for this very reason. I guess I will have to start inquiring when purchasing CDs to see if this brain-dead “feature” has been installed.
What’s next? Books printed in fading ink?