| The buck stops here When I buy a music cd, does anybody have the right to tell me how I should listen to it? Hell no. I don't care how much protection you want to put in the music STORE, to prevent people from walking off with the cds, but when I buy the cd, it's out of the stores' hands. I can listen to it in my portable cd player, my car's cd player, my discman, my computer, wherever I want to and that's nobody else's goddamn business (let's assume I only want to listen to it myself, not to play for other people or whatever).
Now, "selling" music online. Once I've paid for the tune, I expect no less than if I bought an actual physical cd: no moronic corporate suit is going to tell me what music player I CAN use. If I want to play it on WMP, or WinAmp, or burn it to CD to play on my discman, or whatever type of player I like, then it's my own goddamn business.
Sure go ahead protect your site so that 1337 kiddies don't crack it apart and let people download all your junk for free; protect the site so that our transactions (me paying for the song, them sending the song to me) don't get screwed up; that's fine. But when I receive that song that I PAID for, I damn well expect to be able to listen to it in whatever way I choose. Don't give me that only-5-times, can't-burn, proprietary-format crap.
Those companies should have their business models shoved up their asses, sideways and with all sharp corners exposed.
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" Her eyes were just the end of Hell-- / All pain, / Articulate " |
