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Originally Posted by THE FLYING MOUSE
That might be Dutch law,but it's certainly not British law.
If you were allowed to make endless copies of a CD for yourself,the CD would never wear out.Therefore it would never need replacing,therefore effecting sales.
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Sure is Dutch law :) did some research on it (for all you Dutchies: it's available on my website), so I'm pretty sure how it works.
Being brutally honest now, I really think that is most pathetic argument I've heard as to why it should not be allowed to make a copy of a CD you bought (well, actually that is not quite true either, you buy the right to own a piece of plastic and to play the music that is contained on it). It's like putting a sticker on it: "Thank you for buying this CD. Play it and buy it agian!"
That sounds like an open invitation to make crappy CDs that wear out after a week, in order to boost sales.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Under UK law, you can copy media providing it for for your own use only!!
This has never been an issue before because, prior to the launch of home cd-copying technology, all copies have been analogue copies adn therefore reduce in quality each time. The authorities seldom do anything as there would be too much of an outcry if (for example) the general public were told that they can no longer tape CD's onto cassette to play in the car etc. etc.
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True. "Home taping is killing music". I do have a promotial copy of Midnight at the Lost and Found with that printed on the back...
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Originally Posted by Chris
Personally the only issue i have with copy-protected CD's is the quality of the player software that is included!
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I'm not so concerned about the software. I'm more concerned about the awful quality of those .wma files. Which are, in turn, also DRM-protected.
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Originally Posted by ongapisa
2,500,000!!! I don't know if it's a good or a bad news.... this meams that people still renember you, but they didn't loving you...
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Once again, I don't believe that amount. That does not mean I do not believe that people don't download CHSIB, but with the fact that it is practically impossible to track *all* downloads, I'd like to send that figure back to the department of unbelievable fairytales.
If it were true, however... way to go Meat! Two and a half million people wanted to check out your new album :)
On a last personal note:
I'm very concerned about the way this copy corruption crap is headed. Boycotting those 'CD's is one of the options to do something about it, but seeing the responses to this topic (and similar topics on other boards), I don't think that enough people realize what is going on...
I just see a lot of people blindly accepting corporate BS. Here in The Netherlands, everytime I hear that sales of CDs have gone down, they blame downloading directly. They
never even start to consider the option there might be something structurally wrong with, say, the prices, the value-for-money-factor, or other factors. No, it's straigh away "downloading is killing music". I know for a fact that ever since I got the option to 'pre-listen' albums before buying them I am a) never disappointed with what I buy, and b) buying more CDs on a yearly basis.
But as far as those record executives are concerned... that never happened.
William