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| From | Roberta Moore <roberta@mute.com> |
| Subject | Mando Diao |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:37:06 -0400 |
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hi stewart - i am sorry that you had trouble listening to the mando
diao cd. unfortunately, my hands are tied as this is the policy that
is implemented by our parent company, EMI.
is listening to the cd in your computer your only way of listening to
music? do you not have a stereo?
-roberta moore
media relations, mute
212.255.7670 x241
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>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
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>To: audities@smoe.org
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>Subject: Re: CD copy protection question
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>Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20030710021829.00ccbbe0@pop.theworld.com>
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>Mando Diao's BRING 'EM IN (out next month on Mute) has a new
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>copy-protection device that I hadn't seen before. When I put the disc in
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>my computer, a screen comes up that says that my computer must "update"
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>some files before the record can be listened to. In other words, they want
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>to install a data miner on my hard drive to monitor what I do with their
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>CD. Monitor this, Mute: your disc is now in my wastebasket, and the print
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>review you solicited by sending me the disc in the first place is entirely
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>about this new device of yours (which crashed my computer the first several
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>times I tried to listen to it) and the fact that making me feel like a
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>criminal while I'm basically DOING YOU A FAVOR by drumming up some advance
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>press for your new baby band is not the way to endear me to you, no matter
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>how much I agree philosophically with your aversion to copyrtight theft.
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