There’s a New Idiot In Town
Wow, looks like I jumped the gun when I declared Napster to be the dumbest company in the music industry. It appears that title should be held by Sony BMG, who’s new Copy Protected CD scheme is so bad that I was left checking to see if this article was published on April 1.
Apparently,
the copy protection is being geared to stop rabid CD burning by only
allowing you to make three copies of the disc. The songs can be
transferred to a digital music player, but will not work on the iPod, since Apple won’t use Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management program.
As
if not supporting the worlds most popular portable music player wasn’t
dumb enough, this copy protection only works on computers running
Windows, so anyone with a Mac can burn their little hearts out!
Perhaps
the oddest of all is that anyone who visits a website to complain about
the lack of iPod support will receive an email from Sony BMG detailing
a “back door” workaround on the copyright protection.
Wow. Is it
wrong of me to ask what the hell the point of this is? Is Sony BMG
really THAT STUPID to think that CD Burning is where the problem lies?
What
is going on with these major labels?! They have lost touch with their
audience that it’s absolutely pathetic. Why they want to punish someone
who actually purchases a CD by giving them this huge headache just to
get the songs on their iPod is beyond me.
Another thing I am
constantly amazed at is how the iPod is BY FAR the most popular mp3
player, yet nobody wants to support it! Do they expect everyone to sell
their iPods for an inferior player so they can listen to the music that
they’ve already paid for?
There are many people who claim this
is the worst time for the music industry, but I couldn’t disagree more.
I look at these asinine decisions and shit music being thrust upon us
by the major labels and can’t help but laugh. They have shot themselves
in the foot so many times that there’s nothing left to stand on. The
only ones that will survive are those that realize that digital music
is here to stay and embrace it.
