Does somebody want to set up a pettition/boycott site where people can anonymously log in to express the fact that there are plenty of potential customers who won't purchase any CDs that have copyprotection on them?
Somebody needs to send these people the message that legitimate purchasers of music don't want the industry telling us how to listen to music anymore than they want a few "bad apples" distributing their music for free.
The problem with quietly circumventing the technology is that it creates a bad precedent and will embolden the industry to add flawed copyprotection software to EVERYTHING. Getting loud and giving the industry a "showing of hands" representing people who won't let this thing slide could show them that copy-protection software may actually hurt their profits MORE than piracy. Threatening thier bottom line is the only way to show the industry that music fans are serious about protecting fair use of their purchased music.
I would do it myself, but I don't know the first thing about how to set something like this up. It sure would save me a lot of trouble e-mailing friends telling them to boycott this album.
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Does somebody want to set up a pettition/boycott site where people can anonymously log in to express the fact that there are plenty of potential customers who won't purchase any CDs that have copyprotection on them?
Somebody needs to send these people the message that legitimate purchasers of music don't want the industry telling us how to listen to music anymore than they want a few "bad apples" distributing their music for free.
The problem with quietly circumventing the technology is that it creates a bad precedent and will embolden the industry to add flawed copyprotection software to EVERYTHING. Getting loud and giving the industry a "showing of hands" representing people who won't let this thing slide could show them that copy-protection software may actually hurt their profits MORE than piracy. Threatening thier bottom line is the only way to show the industry that music fans are serious about protecting fair use of their purchased music.
I would do it myself, but I don't know the first thing about how to set something like this up. It sure would save me a lot of trouble e-mailing friends telling them to boycott this album.