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.

Comments

Re:Roger Ebert?

[david duncan scott]

Stop bitching about the Karma cap. It gives otherwise maxxed out people at 47 an incentive to post quality.

Maxxed out at 47? I was born in 1959 -- does this mean I have only five years left?

Re:Roger Ebert?

[geekoid]

I don't know, whats the color of the gem in your hand?

Re:Conclusion

[phyxeld]

karma whoring today is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Case in point: Quote the last sentance and a half from the subject article, post without +1 bonus, move to (Score: 5, Funny) in under 30 minutes. (see parent post) No original, or funny, comment is actually required!

Hell, even I gotta hate me for crap like that! :)

(lets see if it gets 'corrected' now)

Re:The answer is startlingly long!

[switcha]

This is except for novel, patentable devices which enjoy a dispensation to retain a legal monopoly on production for a certain period (to enable the development costs to be recouped).

Uhhh...Bueller?....Bueller?...

OK, so I had a hard time understanding that post once the glaze formed over my eyes.

Here's my point: While there are many, many intelligent ideas here on /., I think there might be a case to be made for keeping essays confined to one's journal. Certainly not 'enforced' (censored) but just a general courtesy to the readers with short attention spans.

That post was very informative, and I appreciated it up until my eyeballs dried up, but to think that kind of reasoning was cobbled together in 16 minutes (Story-1:57/Post-2:13) and not cut n' pasted is ludicrous.

Maybe this would have been a case to say, "Hey, I have some thoughts on this...Come read them in my journal."

Re:Nope, he just reads Doonsberry(sp?)

[Steveftoth]

Dude, it's very easy to fix all the bugs of win2k, just don't use it.

Re:actor dudley moore found dead at 66

[dudeX]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID =1292125&thesection=news&thesubsection=world