at the same time their shooting themselves in the foot. the day the new perfect circle album was released in australia, i went to see about importing the unprotected american version... the store salesman wasn't surprised because nearly half of the albums that were sold on that day were returned because of the protection.
i'm not certain it was this kind of protection that was implemented... but this has to be illegal in some kind of way.. the user doesn't get tricked into agreeing to any contracts (because noone reads them) like spyware... its more like a virus, having code run on your machine without your knowledge due to a system's flaw.
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at the same time their shooting themselves in the foot. the day the new perfect circle album was released in australia, i went to see about importing the unprotected american version... the store salesman wasn't surprised because nearly half of the albums that were sold on that day were returned because of the protection.
i'm not certain it was this kind of protection that was implemented... but this has to be illegal in some kind of way.. the user doesn't get tricked into agreeing to any contracts (because noone reads them) like spyware... its more like a virus, having code run on your machine without your knowledge due to a system's flaw.