p2pnet - rss feed: Foo Fighters, DRM and iPods
p2pnet.net News:- Apple’s DRM is coming back to bite it. Hard.
“Aiming to curb piracy, labels like Sony BMG are rolling out copy-protected albums in the United States, which let users make three exact duplicates of a CD, and store files on a PC in Microsoft’s Windows Media format,” says Reuters.
“But the copy-protection bars users from exporting music onto iPods, as Apple’s Fairplay software is incompatible with Windows.”
Reuters Foo Fighters is named as one of the bands whose CD is ‘copy protected’.
However, DRM does not, and cannot, work, although the enbtertainment cartels seem to have trouble grasping that fact.
If you can see it and/or hear it, you can copy it. Period. And a Foo Fighters track, Best Of You, is currently #1 on p2pnet’s Music File Share Modern Rock chart.
“About one-third of the 252 customer reviews of the Foo Fighter CD this week on Amazon, which prominently displays the fact the album is a copy-protected CD, complained about the copy protection,” says Reuters.
Meanwhile, record industry officials said the Dave Matthews and Foo Fighters CDs are selling well.
“Since its mid-June release, the Foo Fighters’ In Your Honor, has sold more than 736,000 units, including 23,000 digital copies, consistently ranking at the top of the charts, according to Nielsen SoundScan,” says the story, adding:
“Dave Matthews’ Stand Up has sold 1.1 million units since its May release, including 56,000 digitally.”
And that’s despite the fact tracks from both are doing equally well on the p2p networks.
But this won’t stop the Big Four music label cartel from suing file sharers, claiming it’s being “devastated” by file sharing.
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Reuters - Anti-iPod CDs selling well, August 5, 2005
August 5th, 2005 at 3:36 pm
I cannot understand why people are still buying crap from the cartels. I guess they really love paying high prices for crappy music and love seeing people get screwed by the RIAA. These same people who buy all of this crap are the same ones that complain about high prices and get mad at you when you suggest that they stop buying.
When the sue them all campaign started, I stopped buying. Independent music is much better, and I always can download something that is produced by the cartels if I feel compelled to listen to a certain song.
August 5th, 2005 at 5:10 pm
Heh, I wonder how many of the downloads from P2P networks are people who have bought the album but were unable to play it?
August 5th, 2005 at 5:34 pm
hahahaha !!!!
August 5th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Those folks that spent the money on DRM products have no room to complain. Like the first poster, I’m on boycott. As far as I am concerned that boycott will extent the rest of my life or until the cartels see that the public is not a consumer but people and that they aren’t (inspite of their claims to the contary) loosing money over p2p. Boosting their hype with false figures isn’t going to help either.
The industry is gaining a rather foul reputation. They have no room to complain about how they are being treated as a results from the public.
August 6th, 2005 at 5:32 am
Hmmmm do those copy protected cd’s have warnings that you can’t copy the music onto ipods? If i was one of those consumers, i’d be suing. Everybody, heck even the guys working in the record stores.
Why? Well, if noone’s willing to sell the copy protected cd’s for fear of being sued, the cartels will have to stop making them won’t they?
August 6th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
I’m on boycott too.
They won’t get a penny of my money with this attitude.
Lower the prices to a reasonable level and I’ll start buying.
August 7th, 2005 at 11:44 am
You (and I) stopped buying because we know that we have a free will, majority of world population doesn’t have it any more - You have to buy it to be socialy acceptable…
People buy because someone has sucessfuly convinced them that they neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed that product, and we realise we don’t. And thats why cartels are waging a war on us - we are a baaaaaaaaad influence
But I must repeat something again:
If you download and like it - go buy it (if and when the price is right),
if not erase it! You don’t need that crap anyway… any you don’t want to help cartels by promoting something bad on download charts - right?
August 31st, 2005 at 5:08 am
ok, whoever thought up this DRM idea for stoping the copying of cds is retarded. I have to pay a lot of money so i can listen to my music on my ipod and once i buy the friggin cd, i cant listen to my music, if you guys are so smart make up an idea to let ipod consumers listen to our music, or else we wont buy it. And if you arnt gonna do it, at least let us know you are selling us a peice of shit that wont work. Its such BS, and the whole anonymous coward thing is also totaly BS, i dont give a flying f*ck about signing up onto your website.