More Big media DRM stupidity.
This story from Boing Boing highlights the rules for the new Coldplay CD. It won’t play on your Mac, or your car, or burn to a CD, can’t be ripped. Might as well as bought it on vinyl. It might be easier to list the devices you CAN play the CD on. Even as Sony is FINALLY starting to get the hint we see that the industry as a whole still hopes to try to survive with the current business models intact and hope to get a a PPV model on top of that for downloadable content with HR-4569-DTCSA-Analog-Hole. This makes NO business since to me. Consumers have gotten used to media shifting music. iPods and other players make this even MORE desirable giving us the ability to take our whole collection in our pocket. Tech, products and companies that allows this freedom will be liked and those that don’t will be hated. You can not make money if you are at odds with your consumer.
