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Ebert, Gillmor on the Music Industry
TTop writes "Roger Ebert has weighed in with a scathing critique of the Universal Music Group and its new copy-protection scheme which renders CDs unplayable in non-Windows operating systems, DVD players, and CD-compatible game consoles. It's nice to see the mainstream press start to come out against the idiotic copy-protection war the RIAA is declaring on their best customers, music lovers. Having to agree to a legal contract to hear a CD you've purchased on your own PC? Puh-leeze. Ebert compares these copy-protection schemes to Circuit City's failed DIVX DVD format." Columnist Dan Gillmor wrote a piece a few days ago about drawing a line in the sand.
...most CD buyers are under 18, so what good is a contract?
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The elitism shown by so many people here makes me ill. Just because someone can't code as well as you, or doesn't have M4d 5ki1l3 in Quake doesn't mean that they're slow or stupid. I'd probably rather have them around on a regular basis than I would you, in face.
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How avuncular of you! When she turns 12 will you teach her to stuff jewlery in her pants at the local Wal-Mart?
You are a thief, and you are training your niece in the family trade. Do not be surprised when she is caught shoplifting and her parents never let you near her again because, "Uncle dieMSdie told me that big business is bad and exploits artists so stealling from them is OK."
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