Friday, August 06, 2004
Somebody must be punished for this...
As I mentioned earlier I ordered the Modey Lemon album after listening to Jo (Caged Baby)'s CD. I was excited to see it had arrived this morning, and I was looking forward to listening to it.
After a morning of meetings I finally get a chance to sit down over lunch and listen to it.
Guess what?
The fucking thing has that annoying copy protection so that it doesn't work in a computer. So, despite me paying for it I now can't listen to it when I want which is right now. In my opinion that makes it a faulty product and I should be able to quite justifiably get a refund. Ok, so copying cds is bad, fine. So do something useful about it. Sign better bands, make CD prices more reasonable, whatever. Introducing CDs we can't listen to is insanity. I'm hardly likely to spend more money buying something I can't listen to am I? No. And if I knew in advance it's quite possible I wouldn't have bought it and spent my money on something else instead. The most stupid thing about it is that it doesn't even stop people copying it, just makes it slightly harder. So all they have achieved is pissing their customers off without making their product secure from copying at all.
In fact if people can't play a CD on their computer, and they listen to most music on their PC, aren't they more likely to not even bother buying the thing and just download it? What's the point of paying for something you can't use? It's the most ridiculous, short sighted, illogical commercial decision I think I've ever heard.
It's like saying "oh, people are speeding in our cars, let's make them without an accelerator so they can't speed."
Are the shit for brains record company wankers who thought this twattish scheme up totally devoid of any common sense or logic?
I am not happy. Who do I need to write to to get this idiocy banned?
After a morning of meetings I finally get a chance to sit down over lunch and listen to it.
Guess what?
The fucking thing has that annoying copy protection so that it doesn't work in a computer. So, despite me paying for it I now can't listen to it when I want which is right now. In my opinion that makes it a faulty product and I should be able to quite justifiably get a refund. Ok, so copying cds is bad, fine. So do something useful about it. Sign better bands, make CD prices more reasonable, whatever. Introducing CDs we can't listen to is insanity. I'm hardly likely to spend more money buying something I can't listen to am I? No. And if I knew in advance it's quite possible I wouldn't have bought it and spent my money on something else instead. The most stupid thing about it is that it doesn't even stop people copying it, just makes it slightly harder. So all they have achieved is pissing their customers off without making their product secure from copying at all.
In fact if people can't play a CD on their computer, and they listen to most music on their PC, aren't they more likely to not even bother buying the thing and just download it? What's the point of paying for something you can't use? It's the most ridiculous, short sighted, illogical commercial decision I think I've ever heard.
It's like saying "oh, people are speeding in our cars, let's make them without an accelerator so they can't speed."
Are the shit for brains record company wankers who thought this twattish scheme up totally devoid of any common sense or logic?
I am not happy. Who do I need to write to to get this idiocy banned?
# posted by Mike @ 13:03 
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How about writing to Jon Webster and see if you get him to add the subject to his rants. His site is http://www.clinic.co.uk/webbo/
# posted by 
: 1:23 PM
: 1:23 PM
send it back to the CEO or MD of the record company involved. do it registered post so that someone has to sign for it.
just tell him what you told us and say you want a CD that works or your money back.
it is the only language these people understand and go to the organ grinder as the monkey will just search another for fleas and then pick its arse and lick the shit off its finger. fucking monkeys.
regards,
graham "the joker" - except i'm not joking this time
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just tell him what you told us and say you want a CD that works or your money back.
it is the only language these people understand and go to the organ grinder as the monkey will just search another for fleas and then pick its arse and lick the shit off its finger. fucking monkeys.
regards,
graham "the joker" - except i'm not joking this time
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