David Byrne Journal
1.10.06: DRM
Happy New Year. Don’t Buy CDs from the Big 5.
CDs from the big five run the risk of damaging your computer, opening you up to security risks, and you can’t rip the music onto your iPod. Stop buying CDs now. At least until they guarantee us that they will never try this shit again.
For those of you who don’t know. Sony, BMG and EMI have been adding software to their CDs to create a kind of copy protection. This software is designed to stop you from copying your CD for your friends or making MP3s, which means you can’t copy it to your iPod...
In addition, some of these CDs contain software that will burrow and worm into your hard drive and do damage — creating security leaks etc.
The software is very difficult to remove, intentionally so.
1.10.06: DRM
Happy New Year. Don’t Buy CDs from the Big 5.
CDs from the big five run the risk of damaging your computer, opening you up to security risks, and you can’t rip the music onto your iPod. Stop buying CDs now. At least until they guarantee us that they will never try this shit again.
For those of you who don’t know. Sony, BMG and EMI have been adding software to their CDs to create a kind of copy protection. This software is designed to stop you from copying your CD for your friends or making MP3s, which means you can’t copy it to your iPod...
In addition, some of these CDs contain software that will burrow and worm into your hard drive and do damage — creating security leaks etc.
The software is very difficult to remove, intentionally so.
posted by Mike Campbell at 12:49 PM
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