New CD won't play

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 10:41 am, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote:
> % On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:07 am, someone claiming to be David A.
> Bandel % wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> % > DRM (digital rights manglement, RIAA digitally mangling your rights).
> % > Take it back and tell them it's defective, you can't play it in your
> % > computer's CD.  The only way to fight DRM is refuse to accept
> delibrately % > broken products.
> % >
> % >
> % <sigsnip>
> % I tend to agree, but wouldn't another way to fight DRM be by rendering
> the % technology to "digitally [mangle] your rights" ineffective?
>
> Perhaps. But, because RIAA is mostly concerned with money, depriving
> them of it seems more effective and less likely to run the risk of
> a DMCA prosecution for circumventing the restriction.
>

Well, the problem with returning the CD is that, well, that I'd no longer 
*have* the CD (and it's rather good). Perhaps a note to the artist would 
help...

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