You’ve probably heard that Sony finally decided they had to apologize and recall the infected CDs. But I think it’s way too soon let up the pressure on Sony and the other music companies.
They need to get the message that DRM is a waste of everyone’s time and money. If they want to sell us their music and movies, they better find a more reasonable approach.
It has been suggested here that any boycott (personal or public) should target Sony-BMG but not Sony. I strongly disagree. Sony-BMG’s stock is not publicly traded, so they have far less accountability to the public. Sony on the other hand, is a public company and is likely to get a lot of heat if this mess impacts their share price.
The Sony rootkit deal has brought intense scrutiny to Sony’s DRM, but don’t forget that the whole industry is putting tremendous resources into trying to find the ‘pick proof lock’ for their content. Their long term goal, I believe, is to get paid every time someone listens to or watches their content.
I, for one, will not tolerate that kind of system. Sony’s forced apology has no effect at all on the larger problem.
They want to be paid everytime someone listens to or watches their content? They’re dreaming! I’ll go back Cassettes, LPs and record players first. There’s a wealth of music available on vinyl that is far, far better that the lowest common denominator crap the record companies put out these days. Personally, I don’t feel the need for “new” music. It’s all been done before and better! I say this as a musician of over 20 years. Go listen to an old Sinatra record. Any production where you actually have a band playing together as a unit instead of everything overdubbed and mixed to perfection in ProTools.
I don’s see the future of the music industry as “pay every time as you listen”.More like “buy once and own the license for private use forever”.It’s like itunes but with quality that does not offend your ears and available everywhere.
I won’t be tolerate the ‘pay me everytime you listern my Music’ statement,
-Are you kidding, until you play me music in live or I ‘ll never pay you , whenever there’s a copy of you music, I should own the right to listen it for free !!! This is the nature of techology to help everyone a better day of
life !!!! you are not the who invent the techolongy , so I dont’ think you should take adventage of it, You can’t take it ? Quit pls.
- this is absolutly a deprivation of human right. This equal to every child would need to pay, or they don’t bear the right to receive any education .
Insane!! Whenever in history people were digging too deep into materialism, liberation will evolve.
Music Labels , be aware of it !!
Of course any boycott of Sony BMG cd does hurt Sony company in the whole. But where is the point in not buying a Sony vcr or tv? It´s like people protesting against bush politics and then loot a Micky D´s in their own non-american town. I do see a point there, boycott Sony BMG rootkit cds is justified but what if you digged deep into Sony´s portfolio and found out they indirectly produced cars,music instruments even food?
btw to make it more easy, we are talking about these 52 infected cds -> http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html
However I do boycott un-cds(no matter which company), I dont buy music online(obviously I am fine the the cds I bought already
) but I wont blindly hurt local economy by not buying eg a tv set from a local dealer.
Because there’s the ideology. Behind this DRM/malware installation (which affects Macs too, BTW, it just isn’t known as far as I can tell from what I’ve read what those installed kext files actually do), there’s this ideology that isn’t solely for records, I am sure. A company thinks in a certain way and it permeates ALL that they do.
The notion that they were entitled to bugger up millions of computers, expose these computers to further damage, just so they could limit your rights in totally unacceptable.
I have come to the realization that I vote with my wallet. That’s why I will never ever buy a Micro$oft product. I do not buy any Union Carbide products (the Bhopal disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_Disaster) and I now have Sony on my list.
I vote with my wallet.
Further more I think it’s the whole music industry that is under the gun here. Sony was only the most obvious stoopid blunderer in the whole record label industry. On the whole, they all have come to the realization that you the consumer must pay and pay and pay.
Pay for the crazy and exorbitant CEO salaries and their unlimited spending accounts, the extravagant luxury of the record label head quarters, etc. while the artist, the one person who makes these leeches live and live more than well, gets basically nothing. For every Madonna you have hundreds of thousands of artists pressured into producing music that will generate money and if they don’t they are dropped. Some of them even have to give up complete artistic licence on the product they offer to you the consumer just because record execs believe “this” will sell better than “this”…
Just my two cents.
-I think the goverment should charge the ‘intellectual property’ owners a levy on every copy they’re reproduced to the market as a fund to fight against piracy,
Since the more they reproduce, the easier to be pirated, and cause the more trouble. And the enforcement office need more cost to handle.
It’d be fair, since it’s their cost to run a business and buy an insurance for every copy of their intellectual property they’re reproduced.
Government has no obligation to ensure they make profit on reproducing large copies of their ‘intellectual property’.