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Furd brings us the latest incredibly stupid move by a record company. EMI targets the ‘mix-tape’ with ’secure CD’ : UK record label EMI announced yesterday it plans to introduce anti-piracy technology to its CDs that will restrict consumers’ ability to burn tracks to blank CDs. The technology, from DRM solutions firm Macrovision, will allow CD owners to copy only three full copies of a CD’s songs, and the burned discs themselves cannot be copied. […] The technology also prevents CDs from being transferred to an iPod. (Emphasis my own). I really, really don't get it. It's obvious they don't either. I'll say it again : People are willing to PAY for your music, even if it's of questionable legality , but they want to feel like they're getting value. Perhaps most importantly, they want the right to choose how to consume it. Putting DRM that prevents them from putting it on their iPod, which in many cases is why they bought the CD in the first place, will lead to a few possible results, none...
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