CD ‘repeated play’ threat: RIAA
p2pnet news | Music:- Music lovers who play CDs repeatedly are ‘the single greatest secret threat’ to recording industry profits, says Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA.
“Before the introduction of the CD twenty-five years ago, record buyers had to replace their favorite vinyl albums because they became scratched and ultimately unlistenable after repeated use,” says an RIAA mouthperson, quoted by Chip Hilton in pugbus.net.
“People also had to replace their favorite cassette tapes, which could be depended on to lose tonal quality over time or to self-destruct when played in automobiles.”
As a result, “record companies could rely on repeat album sales to boost their profits,” says the story, citing Michael Jackson’s Thriller album as an example.
As many as one quarter of its sales of are estimated to have been repeats, says pugbus.
CDs, on the other hand, “are impervious to normal wear and tear – and because they’re too small to be used for cleaning marijuana, fewer beers or loads of bong water are spilled on them,” it continues.
With that in mind, Sony BMG is reportedly close to developing DRM software that prevents CDs from being played more than 100 times, the story states, adding:
“The software also prevents owners from copying a CD more than once. Furthermore, a copy must be made within the first five plays of a CD’s ’shelf life,’ and ‘copying will render the original CD unusable.”
BUT HOLD ON BEFORE YOU GET ALL HOT AND BOTHERED.
The last couple of quotes should give you a clue.
Yup. It’s a spoof.
We have to say that because it’s amazing just how many people take these kinds of items seriously, which is a serious condemnation of the corporate music industry.
People believe they’re capable of anything.
And isn’t this exactly the kind of creepy, screwed-up thinking you’d expect from Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG and their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)?
Also See:
pugbus.net – RIAA Wants Record Labels to Limit Home CD Use, December 12, 2007
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December 14th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Maybe this is the real reasoning behind their hatred of mp3’s? That a 1/4 of their revenue goes out the window when you can back it up. Hmm, apply that to DVD copy protection…. Puts a whole new spin on a very old issue.
December 14th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
how do you clean marijuana with a vinyl LP or cassette?
mine comes pre-cleaned from legal pot shops here. it might cost a little more, but it’s worth it.
anyway, i’ve just purchased an audio cassette deck pc component to re-encode all of my tapes to mp3. i’ll be damned if have to replace all of my tapes with store-bought cds.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Garth Brooks was actually whining about this about 12 or so years ago.
He was upset that second-hand copies of his albums on CD sounded just as good as new ones, and threatened to sell all his next albums on cassette and vinyl so that people would be forced to buy all his albums brand new.
What an idiot.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
even if it were true, it would still be futile.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Well, it looks like they’ve already solved this problem with DRM. Now you can’t listen to it even once.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Not if you play it in Linux or using a good CD player.
After all, it is extremely easy to get a clean kernel and generate clean init-scripts just in case I become suspicious. But I’m not a retard and won’t EVER play it under wine.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I say we burry music and blast of to the stars on a quest for new pleasures!
December 15th, 2007 at 1:38 am
^ sounds good to me.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Actually, I thought it was a modified version of the self destructing DVDs Disney mad a few years ago
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=disney+dvd+self+destruct&btnG=Google+Search
December 15th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Actually, this was already tried with the DIVX movies. You had to buy a code to unlock the disc and it would only play a certain amount of times.
For the music industry to actually think this through would not be too far fetched, and hence people would actually believe this to be true, because there is a good chance it could be.
December 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Is this another of your joke-that-is-meant-to-be-believed-as-news Jon?? I’m asking because I’ve been caught spreading lies I have read here a few times.
Don’t get me wrong I love your website, but I just can’t trust it as news anymore.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:07 am
^^ Hi Johnnyg0:
As it says in the story, “Yup. It’s a spoof”. But it’s not mine, I’m sorry to say
Cheers!