Sony Gives Everybody Yet Another Reason To Love The Music Industry

It's hard not to break into a goofy grin these days when the subject turns to that crazy music industry — those scamps! They're always railling against file-sharing and illegally paying radio stations to play their awful music? Well guess what: as reported by our no. 37 news story today, now Sony is embedding poorly-coded, virus-like programs on listeners' computers! In fact, the BBC quotes one expert as saying "Sony might be inadvertently provoking piracy as consumers irritated by the anti-copying system rip the tracks to get around the restrictions." Ha ha ha! Nice work! At last, we can respect and take the music business seriously again. Now, do you think bloggers will be pleased to learn that new consumer DRM-protected CDs will be installing malware on their computers? Let's ask Angwe: "That's crap-tastic. All the more reason to stop buying CDs from RIAA companies." Writes this blogger: "Because, of course, the best way to fight 'piracy' is to punish the people who paid the fully-bloated MSRP for a CD and thought they could play it on any computer or media player they also rightfully purchased." What next, music industry? Maybe you oughta go back to pressing LPs — those are really hard to upload to Grokster.

Posted by Philip Ewing at November 4, 2005 12:14 PM

Category: The Soundscape