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| From | DanAbnrml9@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V1 #338 (10 msgs) |
| Date | Wed, 28 May 2003 08:50:45 EDT |
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In a message dated 5/28/03 2:00:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> You know, I want to buy this album, I really do, but this copy protection
> crap is pissing me off, especially when it appears to harm the quality of
> the album itself. I already have a copy-protected Doll Revolution, which
> means no using it for mix CDs for my own personal use. Thank you record
> industry for once again managing to punish me for being an avid and heavy
> purchaser of your product.
>
I felt the same way, and continue to feel the same way about future US
releases of albums. But because this was a Japanese Import, I just said screw it...
there's a lot less you can do and a letter complaining about it won't be
terribly effective. I do maintain that once this becomes standard here--as it seems
to have become in Japan--I am going to switch to all burning/downloading and
stop buying music altogether. The product itself will have decreased worth to
me, so I'll be lost as a customer.
But you know what? The copy-protection on this disc doesn't work anyway. I've
copied it for several people--I've put random tracks on mixes. I didn't have
to do anything fancy, like black a part of the disc out with a sharpie. I
merely put it in the player and pressed copy. No problems whatsoever. So go have
fun. --Jason
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