Making of an Outlaw
I am not a Dave Matthews fan, but many people are and I am sure the band is quite talented and deserves to be paid for the music it sells. I am also sure the producer and engineers and all the rest deserve their cut. Likewise I don’t deny the record company their share, but if I were an artist I would want to watch that share closely. However, the record company and the Dave Matthews band have no decided that I can’t be trusted and need strict watching.
I am the recording industries dream customer, I buy all the music I listen to and I let people know when I find music they might like. In return for my loyalty, I have been called a thief. The record companies have no extended copyright so far in the past that everybody but Mozart is still getting royalties. You will be long dead before any music made in living history becomes public domain. I pay extra for every blank CD I buy so that Brittany, Madonna and most of all the record companies can have some extra money from me, whether I burn their copyrighted music or not on the cd. I am getting sick and tired of this. Push me any farther and you will make me go illegle. I am getting fed up with this. I buy tons of cds and download from legal providers like Itunes and Emusic. I put up with crippled music from these legal sites and now you want to cripple the CDs I buy as well. I warn you, there is only so much your legal customers will take. Push us harder and you may find that line. Oh and Dave Matthews, you can take your CD and shove it.
June 20th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
They thought CD sales had dropped before…I’m betting this will lead to a further decline in sales. Do the legit download services have this problem too? Are MP3s you download legally also protected by some sort of limiting program? I can’t imagine it will be too long before somebody develops a crack for the protection software. It’s like an arms race; you develope better tank armor, I develop a better anti-tank weapon, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum.
June 20th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
Don’t hold back Brett, tell us how you really feel.
June 20th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
Don’t throw away your cassette tape deck….
June 21st, 2005 at 5:14 am
Amusingly, the record industry says the old cassette mix tapes were ok because they always had the hiss, while CD mixes are bad because they are too perfect. It is horsecrap of course, Malaysian pirates are not ripping from college student mix CDs, but they feel if they repeat this nonsense often enough somebody will believe it. The record companies have the answer to their problems, of course, make the hardware people only sell us crippled players! Geniuses, pure geniuses.
Yes Dave, all music you download from Itunes or the other bigger stores comes crippled, but it is easy enough to get around by recording it onto a cd, then reripping the cd, but why should I have to for something I bought at such a premium price? There is cracking software out there and it is an arms race just as you say, but I have stayed out of it so far. With these new moronic CDs I will be bloody tempted to get into the race now.