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Fighting Music Piracy with Glue

Posted by chrisd on from the morons-morons-morons dept.

Scott Granneman writes: "The New York Times (Free Blah-di-blah) is reporting that Epic Records, in an effort to prevent reviewers from creating mp3s or even playing the preview CD in anything they don't control, is not disseminating the new Pearl Jam and Tori Amos CDs inside Sony Walkman players that are glued shut. Oh yeah ... the headphones are glued to the players too, to prevent any authorized output. A low-tech answer to a high-tech issue."

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  1. That's gotta be a joke... by RealUlli · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Already April 1st ?!?

    Shit. Missed Christmas... ;-)

    Cheers, Ulli

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  2. Pearl Jam?? by ONOIML8 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Is that the same band that went to war with Ticketmaster for overcharging fans on ticket prices? Amazing. You would think they would........aw hell, you never can tell with these guys.

    Especially since Pearl Jam became the Neil Young backup band.

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  3. Re:nothing new by SubtleNuance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.

    isnt this a good idea?

    i mean, really, having something dependable/stable/reliable is much more important than extravigance...

    am i missing your point..?

  4. Re:Nothing really matters.... by jamie · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "I used to like Tori. Now she's just too fscking stupid. Takes herself way too seriously if you know what I mean...

    ...it seems to me a lot of artists are good when they have a struggle in their life...you know, like before they're famous. Then they get bazillions of people telling them how wonderful they are and (as I'm sure anyone would) they start believing it...well, they probably thought they were to begin with and now they really accept it."

    For some, that's true. Some of that is the "sophomore slump," which is probably largely statistical. (If a band's quality of output varies up and down, and if only the best work will get a band signed, it makes sense that most bands' quality, immediately after their first on-label effort, will go down. It's the same reasons sports figures have this superstition about slumping after appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated -- if you did something cover-worthy, chances are whatever you do next week won't be.)

    But for many musical artists, I think it's the opposite. Tori Amos's early work was good, don't get me wrong - I like Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink.

    But once she broke away from the traditional song format, and didn't try to do radio-friendly, market-listenable stuff, her work just got amazing. Boys For Pele is one of the greatest albums of all time.

    I'm not totally in love with From the Choirgirl Hotel, and I haven't listened to Strange Little Girls more than once, but... she'll hit her stride again. Genius recurs.

    Real artists, I think, can always find that struggle and draw from it. In fact it kind of cheapens the idea of internal struggle to say that it can only be about "oh, my life is so hard, I'm on the road all the time" or "woe is me, I have to play in clubs by day and write music by night, and I eat cruddy food." If that's the worst thing that's ever happened to you, I can tell you, your well of inspiration to draw from is pretty shallow.