Universal Music Hit with Anti-Piracy Suit

prostoalex writes "Remember Bon Jovi trying to fight piracy with individual PIN numbers that legitimate buyers could get off the CD? DownloadCard, who claims to have invented the technology, filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group saying the music execs stole the technology and trade secrets from the company. Yahoo! Launch headline suggests that Bon Jovi album might be delayed because of the lawsuit."

Comments

Rampant privacy violations possible!

[I Am The Owl]

I'm sorry, but this is just inexcusable! As if it wasn't bad enough that the RIAA was trying to hunt down each and every user of a P2P network, now they want to tie each individual consumer to a unique PIN number!

Does anyone have any idea how evil this is? Let's look at the facts:

• Every year, millions of people download music, and the RIAA loses more money (good)
• Every year, millions of Americans have their privacy violated when they have their social security number tied to their real identity by identity theives and their whole market valuation is drained from their bank accounts, along with tons of credit.

So, you see, this is only part of an evil RIAA scam to rape consumers even more. The next thing you know, they have all your personal info in a big government database, where they can tie it all together and violate your Constitutional right to privacy! I'm not going to stand for this; I'm not going to buy any more music by Bon Jovi. This is an outrage.