Comments on: Virgin Megastore DRM protest

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:24:51 +0000

Wow i dunno how i missed this back in August but check this link out. There are others out there, but they’re all just quoting this one. I did some hunting around but haven’t been able to find out whether or not he was successful. It’d be such a laugh if he was ;o)

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1235

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:30:00 +0000

It’ll be fun to start one in my city… It won’t really hurt the store with one day of protest (the intention is NOT to hurt the business store — i.e. small business owners, but to bring home the message to the execs…).

DRM == Damaged Readable Media

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:34:42 +0000

Slowly, ever so slowly, the public is starting to get the idea. The word is going out, both through hearing about it in events like this, a few editorials, papered and published studies, and from the buying public its self as it discovers what it is buying. In an ever growing number people are saying this isn’t a product I want. If they don’t want it, you can’t give it away.

That’s not all either; there is a growing resentment to the way these cartels are doing business and attempting to force the public into their idea of what the market place should be. They are teaching a whole new generation to hate just what they stand for. Go to any college and ask about this in relationship to the internet and its affects upon the students. You won’t have to ask very many of them before you learn of it. Those are what the cartels expect to be their prospective customers and they will have to face them in the near future.

The cartels are threatened by the very thing they fear the most, loss of control. They are being pinched by lack of:

~need for them to preform what they did in the past.
~repurchase from customers.
~developed artists with long term life that brings in the bucks in the tight times.
~the increased resentment they have generated for their industy and product through manipulation.
~overpriced product that is no longer worth the money.

I haven’t wanted to buy anything from these pratictioners of financial terrorism in a long time. I am quite sure I am not the only one that is on boycott over these abuses.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:34:50 +0000

Or did I hear that somewhere else before…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:08:43 +0000

Attempting to circumvent the DRM protection actually sends out the message, “it’s normal and acceptable for big music to do this.”. The only way forward is to reject DRM/cartel product alltogether.