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 Thursday, September 11, 2003
Why am I not surprised? Why did it take them so long to find these? Why does anyone find this acceptable? 12:32:07 AM 
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With the anniversary, now is a good time to remember just how amazing Americans can be when they take up the fight. The passengers on Flight 93 did not need a centralized authority to tell them what to do, did not need to be reminded what the consequences would be. they did what they had to do. Just as the Alamo is remembered for similar reasons, so should the passengers of Flight 93. Yet they seem to have been forgotten so soon. 12:20:48 AM
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Adding Insult To Injury: Now The Music Biz Starts Shipping Copy Protected CDs. Another link submitted by AMetamorphosis talking about how the music industry is about to start pushing copy protected music on many new CDs in the US. There have been a few trials on the technology in the US, but now they're expanding the program widely. This is, of course, the latest strategy by the industry to shoot themselves in the foot. Offer me a product that does even less than before making it worth less to me? No thanks. I won't buy it. I thought the industry wanted to increase the sale of CDs. All this does is decrease it. Like the problems with product activation, adding copy protection digital rights management to CDs does nothing to solve the problem. People who want to copy the music will still figure out how. However, the rest of us who just want to use the music in legitimate, non-infringing ways, will have our lives made more difficult. Suing your customers and then offering them a worse product. What genius thought that up as a way to increase sales?
[Techdirt]
We again see the cynical approach to marketing. Most people will not ever notice that their CDs are not the same but a huge percentage of the very people they are trying to sell to, the young, will know. they make it their business to know about the latest stuff. This is just another nail in the coffin of the music industry. Lack of creativity at the top will eventually free the creativity of the artists, but probably after a few more 12-year olds have to settle lawsuits. 12:09:36 AM
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