dev hull
@hbocvan.com | reply to cprgolds
Re: Would It Really Do Any Good???
I am doing my part. I don't buy CDs at all after the Napster court case. If the RIAA wants to play hard ball, and not give any options to use the music you paid for in any other media, the RIAA can fight the court case with out MY music money. |
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amoiseyev
Went For Beer
join:2000-11-14
Worcester, MA
| reply to cprgolds
said by cprgolds:
small fraction of the buyers and SONY would probably never feel the impact.
I think that Sony will see the impact of their own actions: "protected CDs" will cause decrease in sales ( and increase in piracy ) for the few obvious reasons:
1. Computer users will not buy "protected CDs" because they are useless for them;
2. Some (small amount, but few) people will just boycott these CDs;
3. Some "advanced users" will buy the CD, make a copy for themselves and for sharing and return "corrupted cd" back to the store and get full refund;
4. Real pirates (who made unlicensed copies by thousands in Bulgaria and China) will get a virtually "competition-free" market, where nobody legally offer "real CD" with the same content;
5. A lot of customers who care about their money more than about copyright laws will prefer to buy pirated CD, copy it or download the music instead of buying perfectly legal disk that will not play in the car audio or portable cd-player.
I think with all these 5 Sony will have to admit than sales of these protected CDs are noticeable less than they would be without protection.
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Alex
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. - Murphy's law |
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careywb
join:2001-07-14
Chesapeake, VA | reply to cprgolds
I hear ya....but, more and more people are running CDs in their computer these days. If dissatisfaction grows large enough, there could be an impact. I, personnaly, wouldn't rule this out...small waves CAN sometime turn into large swells. |
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cprgolds
Woof Woof
Premium
join:2000-12-22
Portland, OR
|  reply to careywb
I agree with careywb in theory. But in all practicality, the people who would boycott CD purchases (or even know enough to boycott them) are a small fraction of the buyers and SONY would probably never feel the impact.
Having said that, I personally will not knowingly buy CD's with this copy protection just like I won't buy things from companies that litter my internet sessions with popups and popunders! |
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