I don't like judgmental people. Yet in writing this blog I know that I am sharing my opinions about companies and people, and those opinions may appear judgmental. This is one situation where I don't mind appearing judgmental!
News.com has an interesting article about CD copy protection and the problems it is causing consumers. The article is great because it epitomizes exactly what is wrong with the music industry: they don't care about their consumers!
A recently released CD with copy protection hit #1 on the charts, and due to the copy protection on the CD consumers are having a hard time ripping and transferring the songs to their iPods. These companies are so concerned about piracy that they are willing to make the consumers WHO ARE STILL BUYING CDs (all 10 of them), jump through hoops to get their music on their iPod. These consumers who are obviously somewhat savvy about technology (they own iPods) now have an incentive to either download the songs they want from the album from iTunes or to steal the album outright to get the music on their iPods.
Watching the record industry over the past 5 - 7 years has been like watching someone try to put out a fire with gasoline.
No comments:
Post a Comment