Record Companies Begs Me to Download with Copyright Protection Technology

Posted byYan Sham-ShackletonPosted inDa Music Issue

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Finn has a rather apt yet very disturbing image of RIAA in action titled “The RIAA in 2024 (RIAA = the guys who are arresting kids and 60 year olds and slapping low income families with thousands of US dollar fines for downloading too many songs in the US). It seems that they have been using overt force on minors for years, as the photo was from the time they “went in” to “take” a Cuban refugee child from his mother’s family in the US to return him to his father, as his mom died in an accident while crossing the waters under gun point.

The whole RIAA “Action Suits” is bunk. I bought an album (one of the first major releases I have done so in years) and it has that new “copyright” technology in it. So it means I can’t play it on my CD player, can’t play it on my DVD player and CANNOT play it on my computer. Tried two different cds too.

Know what happenned? I returned it and downloaded the songs. I told the record store guy too, I was like, “They are begging us to Kazza” he laughed and said, “Yeah, there have been a few albums like that. The last big one was the Dido one, everyone said the same thing.”

Right. I read on Slashdot ages ago, before we had our little shared “banning” moment (although they have since unblocked that site, while mine remains unseen in China) someone suggesting that we should go buy $2000 worth of the crappiest dreak we can find that the record companies call “music” these days, and hand them to the RIAA as the “Fine” for those families in trouble.

I think she had a point there.

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

7 thoughts on “Record Companies Begs Me to Download with Copyright Protection Technology”

  2. hey pketh, at least it’s LEGAL to download copyrighted music from the Internet in Canada.
    Anyway, I don’t f-king care about whatever DRM research. Did you know the shitty Canadian government is welcoming Dalai Lama to Canada to release all the greatest evil spirits ever captured in CANADA??!! Ya, that’s the reason why Dalai Lama is here in Canada right now. Just what on earth were they thinking?
    But i’m not really concern with that either, since I’m from the “wetcoast”. My concern is with bill C250. What happen to freedom of speech and freedom of religion? F the government!

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  3. You know that the Border Patrol team responsible for removing Elian Gonzalez from his aunt’s home, in order to satisfy a court order that the boy be repatriated to Cuba to be with his father, has nothing to do with the RIAA, right?

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  6. I brought a CD with that new copyright technology last X’mas, was able played it on my CD player, DVD player and computer but discovered that it really randomly skipped tracks for absolutely no reason. I was so very much frustrated, especially because that big name retailer shop overcharged me 10 bucks for the title! That is what I call (not music) OUTRAGEOUS.

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  7. I make sure to mention DRM in any CD that I review in the local music press where I live. Hopefully, it pisses off the right people.

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