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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: My final thoughts on the whole Sony/BMG thing |
| Date | Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:04:08 -0500 |
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You bought 1,410 CDs this year??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:14 AM
Subject: My final thoughts on the whole Sony/BMG thing
> 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.
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