Comments on: Free, Legal P2P Music …Just Kidding. http://www.joemanna.com/blog/free-legal-p2p-music-just-kidding/ Tech News, Social Media & Politics From a Geek Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:47:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Junkyard Willie http://www.joemanna.com/blog/free-legal-p2p-music-just-kidding/#comment-38615 Junkyard Willie Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:01:10 +0000 http://www.joemanna.com/blog/free-legal-p2p-music-just-kidding/#comment-38615 "Cooking the books" is right! These aren't downloads- they're temporary, ad-supported rentals! They can be played a pre-defined number of times within the industry's pre-defined playback software- and can't be transferred to a hard drive or music player (at least not within the bounds of the TOS). They're shackled with DRM six ways from Sunday; and although pretty much every single savvy user on the Internet knows how to strip that DRM off this music, the whole package kind of defeats the point. The corporations are pathologically unable to resist injecting their old-business DNA into the new-business organism of Internet-distributed music. They want to reach these savvy users; but they can't check their control issues at the door. Even here, we have proprietary plugins, limited playbacks, and deliberate noncompatibility. This is not the sea change many are claiming- this is more of the same; and more of the same in a more disgustingly obvious way than ever before. I encourage everyone who has been "stealing" music since the early 1990's when this business model first failed, to continue "stealing-" Continue downloading everything, discarding and disparaging those acts you didn't/don't like and (more importantly) supporting those artists which you like through donations and concert/merchandise sales- and let the corporations flail and writhe in agony during their death throes. These people (the corporate mouth-breathers) have their "prestigious" college degrees because their parents were alumni at these reprehensible institutions and they got free admission to the gravy train. They participated in the circle-jerks and racist pledge antics that the rest of these privileged elites did. They deserve what they get from the destruction of their unnatural business model- they deserve the squalor and poverty that they have inflicted on so many over the years in the name of the "free market" blessing them with obscene profits... I hope every who reads this downloads a song or two. Or fifty. Or fifty thousand. “Cooking the books” is right! These aren’t downloads- they’re temporary, ad-supported rentals! They can be played a pre-defined number of times within the industry’s pre-defined playback software- and can’t be transferred to a hard drive or music player (at least not within the bounds of the TOS). They’re shackled with DRM six ways from Sunday; and although pretty much every single savvy user on the Internet knows how to strip that DRM off this music, the whole package kind of defeats the point. The corporations are pathologically unable to resist injecting their old-business DNA into the new-business organism of Internet-distributed music.

They want to reach these savvy users; but they can’t check their control issues at the door. Even here, we have proprietary plugins, limited playbacks, and deliberate noncompatibility. This is not the sea change many are claiming- this is more of the same; and more of the same in a more disgustingly obvious way than ever before.

I encourage everyone who has been “stealing” music since the early 1990’s when this business model first failed, to continue “stealing-” Continue downloading everything, discarding and disparaging those acts you didn’t/don’t like and (more importantly) supporting those artists which you like through donations and concert/merchandise sales- and let the corporations flail and writhe in agony during their death throes.

These people (the corporate mouth-breathers) have their “prestigious” college degrees because their parents were alumni at these reprehensible institutions and they got free admission to the gravy train. They participated in the circle-jerks and racist pledge antics that the rest of these privileged elites did. They deserve what they get from the destruction of their unnatural business model- they deserve the squalor and poverty that they have inflicted on so many over the years in the name of the “free market” blessing them with obscene profits… I hope every who reads this downloads a song or two. Or fifty. Or fifty thousand.

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