Comments on: Music firm wants into your HD

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:27:40 +0000

This was thought up by a marketing guy. You can tell.

During my business career, I’ve seen countless ideas like this – promising the world and invariably failing miserably. Why? Marketing people consistently assume that consumers will agree to be exploited for the supposed reward of being sold stuff!

For some reason those pesky consumers never go for it, and marketing guys are always scratching their heads:)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:18:37 +0000

Quite. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do this. last.fm and Audioscrobbler are the right way.

Why don’t they just buy them. Audioscrobbler could do with the money.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:28:14 +0000

I much agree with this. Big business has no business in my hard drive. They want my info so bad? Get my permission directly, not through some sneaky workaround. After all that’s what all these corporations what, free info and then sell it. I seriously doubt I would give them the permission to begin with. Violating my privacy to obtain such info isn’t going to cut it. I would not allow a corporation busybody to ransack my car or go through my wallet on the side of the street. Nor will I willing allow them to ransack and plunder my harddrive.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:40:33 +0000

They can get in after they pry it out of my cold dead hands/network.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:39:32 +0000

audioscrobbler.com does this, doesnt it?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:58:53 +0000

Abhorent!

I’d call it spyware.