You see all the key buzz words but still no where do we see the admission of screwing up. No where do we see any apology to date. All that is seen is a “So what”?

How’s this for a “So what”, I don’t want Sony music. Not today, not tomorrow, not next year. Simply I can’t trust them and have no idea when the next great idea will be to slip in another little present for free.

Sony is great in using this commission idea in works for hire. I am sure the dealing with First4Internet and Mediamax are much in the same vein. Now they may have been dealing with idiots for all I know, but it is Sony that included this crap in the data track, no one else. Trying to shift a share of the blame to BMG is like the nose complaining the tail stinks, it’s the same dog as far as I am concerned. The labels have always been at this game of confusing the issues. One has only to look at the vast amount of labels out there to get a clue. It’s so confusing that even they have a hard time telling who owns what. For the public it is all but impossible. So much for blaming the right companies. (Of course that little part has been carefully not mentioned I see.)

Artists rights? Oh, pray tell when was any music house gonna let the indy have a chance? No money in it for them. Guess that’s why Sony got nailed for payolla practices, umm? Thanks to the likes of Sony and the others, the FM radio is nothing now but a wasteland to hear the same songs over and over every hour. Where is the fresh new stuff? Where is the exposure to something that might interest the music listener back to the stores to buy? It’s all gone for the guarenteed ability to buy what they want exposed and it is the listener and the artists that suffer for that. I’m not even going to get into the one sided contracts, false billing accusations, or past history of accusations of double pressing without paying the artists royalities.

What “artist’s right”? Artist’s sign it all away to the record companies more often than not with terrible contracts because they don’t have much of a choice, and are lucky if they make anything in the end. You have to be pretty big and successful (talent is irrelevant here) to actually get anywhere or make anything. It’s the record companies that take the lions share, and pretty much always all the rights too. It’s not the artists they are worried about at all, nor are they really interested in protecting them. The record companies care about number one, themselves, and will obviously do absolutely anything they think is needed in order to achieve their goals. It was already bad enough that they started alienating compltely ordinary people, their own customers, by suing everyone in sight, but then to have the gall to think they have a right to do what ever they want to you and your PC… it truly boggles the mind, and even more mind boggling is that they seem to be completely ignorant and can’t see what they’re really accomplishing with these kinds of actions. If they keep it up, we’ll see physical violence at some point, mark my words. History is full of the terrible things completely ruined people have done. When you have nothing to lose, revenge against your perpetrators starts looking mighty fine I’ll bet. It’s a crazy, crazy world. I mean, look at the movie industry, the music industries alter ego for all intents and purposes. The artists in this case (the actors I mean) make many millions for each movie they star in. Now how does that make any sense? And there are so many forms of entertainment. Do we even need the music and movie industry? Truly? I mean, it’s not like we need them like a roof over our heads and food in our belly. It’s like what someone here often posts. Life would go on without them, as if nothing had changed. If anything, life would likely be more normal, more sane. They really need to realize that they are not nearly as important as they think they are, and that the only certain in life is change. Either you change with times or you fade away.

Oh, and Sony is Sony to me. I have no plans to buy anything with the Sony name on it ever again. It’s not all that hard though as my uncle, whom is an electronics repair person by trade (has been for several decades), has been telling the entire family for many years to avoid them. The few things I actually have owned have always failed right around when the warranty ended. It’s overpriced junk. When you buy anything from Sony, you’re paying for the name, not the quality.

Way to dump your failings on your subsiduary companies Sony. You fucked up and we caught you.

Nice try though.