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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.
If Roger Ebert were really against the RIAA (and MPAA) he wouldn't bend over and wiggle his sexy little butt every time they wanted him to post a favorable review of another piece of crap movie. Wow, I WISH I could trust movie reviews, but honesty and integrity in that field went out of style maybe 15 years ago.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
The determined pirate, of course, will not be affected by the new CDs. She will simply connect her stereo to her computer, then press "record" on her ripping software as she presses "play" on her conventional CD player.
Now we know lil' chubby had no date for the prom when he was growing up....
FortKnox, somebody moderated your first post as Redundant. Thank-you and the moderator for giving me my daily giggle.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?