Hi,

In message , Andy Hewitt
writes
Glenn Booth wrote:

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It's dumb. The only people that this inconveniences are the legitimate
customers. Pirates wouldn't even raise a sweat getting a perfect copy of
this onto Kazaa, it's just too easy. I have no problems buying my music,
but it needs to work properly. This just doesn't. BMG are in my ****
list. I don't care who is on their label, they ain't getting my money.

Rant over.

Well, if you want it cheaper and easier, get a copy of iTunes and
subscribe to the iTunes Music Store [1]. You can get the album off there
for £7.99, and make up to 5 legal copies onto CD, as well as store it on
up to 10 networked computers.

Interesting isn't it? According to UK law, if you buy the 'full price'
chunk of polycarbonate, you aren't even allowed to copy it to your
walkman/mp3 player/ipod, whatever. We have no 'fair use' consideration
at all in law, and yet the cheaper downloaded version of the same album
can be copied 15 times without breaching any copyright law. That's bad
legislation, even if it is hardly ever enforced.


OK, you need to be able to read a CDR, but the copies I've made have all
worked perfectly in anything I've tried. I'd defy you to tell the
difference in a car stereo too.

I downloaded iTunes on the day it was released, only to find that it
wasn't available in the UK at the time. Of course, you have to do a 20
odd meg download and install the software before Apple tell you that...

I'll probably give it another go at some point.

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Regards,
Glenn Booth