EMI Customer Relations Tells It Like It Is

hype7 writes "The Register is running a story about the most outrageous email sent from a customer services rep at BMI in Germany to a customer who had difficulty playing a copy-protected CD in his CD player. One of the most stunning lines from the translation: "If you plan to continue protesting about future audio media releases with copy protection, forget it; copy protection is a reality, and within a matter of months more or less all audio media worldwide are copy protected. And this is a good thing for the music industry. In order to make this happen we will do anything within our power - whether you like it or not.""

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Re:heh

[RembrandtX]

I dunno
I have over 100 gigs of 192encoded mp3s.
thats over 600 albums ..
maybe 100 of them tops I do not own.
I would say .. on average .. that i buy (or have bought in the past) most of the albums i have downloaded - if i like them.
[i may keep albums that are borderline .. but i nuke the ones that have nothing i like on them, no space to keep the dead weight around.]

A *LOT* of the albums i download are albums I have owned in the past .. are no longer produced, or I cant seem to get my local cd shops to order.

For example .. if anyone can find me T-Ride's only cd .. I'll buy it from them .. until then .. ill have to use my only copy .. which i downloaded. [i still own the audio tape .. regardless of it being 1/2 demagnatized.]

Sometimes ill get new stuff that I have not heard yet. To see if I like it .. if i like it enough .. ill buy it .. if i can find the cd around.

What is really funny .. is at LEAST HALF of the 500 or so cd's i have were bought from 2nd hand music shops .. rather than pay $16 for a new cd .. i can buy it for $5.

I would think .. that this costs the record lables a hell of a lot more than the people that download. they certainly don't see any of the 2nd hand money.