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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | My final thoughts on the whole Sony/BMG thing |
| Date | Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:14:42 -0500 |
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You know who I feel sorry for in the whole Sony XCP rootkit DRM
debacle? Natasha Bedingfield. Her debut album Unwritten was the only
Sony/BMG album I bought during the whole period that the company was
secretly installing spyware on the computers of anyone who attempted
to play CDs they'd paid for with their own money into their own
computers for their own private use. (And that right there is the
main problem with the major labels: my CD database software tells me
that I bought 1410 CDs between January 1 and December 1, 2005, so if
only one of them is a Sony/BMG product, that's clearly Sony/BMG's
problem and not my own.) Last month, I received an email from Amazon
asking me to return the CD, which I'd managed to make a clean,
un-protected CD-R of, for a complete refund, and I noticed today that
Amazon still lists Bedingfield's album as "currently unavailable."
Poor girl recorded and released a fairly terrific piece of modern day
chart pop, and now it can't be sold. Her career is probably
irreparably damaged, at least in the US, and all because Sony/BMG
decided to be dicks. Way to go, folks. If I were a stockholder in
your company, I'd be pissed.
S
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