Ebert, Gillmor on the Music Industry

Posted by michael on Wednesday March 27, 2002 @09:57AM from the his-master's-voice dept.

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.

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Re:Roger Ebert? by david+duncan+scott · 2002-03-27 10:19 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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?

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Re:Roger Ebert? by geekoid · 2002-03-27 10:22 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

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