New CD won't play

[Tom Condon]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 09:20, Tim Wunder carved in granite:
> > % > 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.
> > % >
> > % 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...

If you can't *play* the CD you don't *have* the CD, you've got a 
coaster.  Perhaps a class action suit for false advertising (that it 
was a music CD that would play) would be more effective.


In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,

Tom  ;-})

Tom. Condon
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