Comments on: Confessions of a Music Pirate

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:49:18 +0000

My friend’s sister was making out with this guy from Rhino the other night at a really hot party in Hollywood, and he said they have lot’s of problems with DRM, but corporate won’t let them take down the store.

He also says he doubt’s the validity of the post on consumerist, since a) emails worked at last check b) csr’s would NEVER tell someone to download from a library and are only allowed to stick with a very strict script.

Still, tho, the point is that DRM sux, and I imagine that even as much as they REALLY REALLY want to sell non-DRM files, their hands are tied by other’s policies and are all deeply dismayed by the poor customer experience they are presenting.

Great box sets, tho.

By: The Day the Music Died at Scott Schnaars’ KnuckleSandwich

The Day the Music Died at Scott Schnaars’ KnuckleSandwich — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:35:29 +0000

[...] Of course, I’ll readily admit that a.) 1991 – 1999 was high school, college and my move to California, so it was a pretty formidable stage of my life; b.) I suspect that most people think that the music from this period in their own life is the best music ever created and c.) that I’m old and of the opinion that most music released today sucks, even though I’m totally out of touch with everything. Candidly, I haven’t really thought about the music industry for a while since I’ve spent most of my time listening to Coverville, KSCU & NPR, however, I’ve neglected mass music on such a scale that a rant has been boiling up inside for a long time. Ian Rogers had a great link today to Consumerist and a long letter about musical piracy. Second, Michael Arrington had a good post today about music sales being down. Both of these posts are excellent and both led to this rant. [...]

By: md

md — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:56:46 +0000

Yep. He pretty much nailed it.