New CD won't play

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote:
% 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...

As Tom Condon pointed out, you *don't* have a CD, you have half a 
coaster. Obviously, it's your choice.

Kurt
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