This lede would have been unthinkable just a year or two ago:
They’re overpriced, ugly and don’t even make good rearview mirror ornaments. Now that we know they are also potentially poisonous to personal computers, thanks to Sony BMG’s rogue copy-protection technology, there’s really no reason to buy another compact disc ever again.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Disclaimer Haiku:
West wind seems to say,
"This is not legal advice;
I'm not your lawyer."
(And if you're a client with whom I have a preexisting attorney-client relationship, this still isn't legal advice.)
In case you're wondering, this blog is also not intended as advertising, as a representation of anything but my personal opinion, or as an offer of representation.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
[powered by WordPress.]
[generated in 0.365 seconds.]
Linkblog Atom Feed
The author says that “Owning music is so last century”, which is a little bit depressing. CDs are nice because, if you access them from a machine that doesn’t do autorun, you get a lawful way to own music in the digital format of your choice.
Comment by Seth Schoen — November 27, 2005 @ 11:07 pm
That is depressing, since the current ways of “not owning” music depend on restrictive DRM. Having a 5GB portable player that stopped playing mid-road trip because it needed to sync with my home computer to get new license files was the last straw for me. Anything would have been better, even a rootkit.
Comment by Joe Gratz — November 27, 2005 @ 11:16 pm
What about album art? I bought Neil Diamond’s “12 Songs” off iTunes since it was no longer in stores. It came with a four-page PDF. I thought that was all right, but is this the future of album art? I still love real album packaging–but it needs to be tactile–not just a PDF. I think we will lose a lot if we lose good album packaging. I hate the idea of music not coming in a tangible format.
Comment by Stacia — November 28, 2005 @ 2:52 pm
In full snark mode, given the state of popular music these days, was there a good reason to buy a CD in the first place?
Comment by Pooh — November 30, 2005 @ 1:54 pm