Dear Japanese Recording Industry:
Feb. 19th, 2004 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanWe're through. I want a divorce.
I've spent quite a bit of money on your new albums recently (like, several hundred dollars worth), and how do you thank me? By making them "copyright protected", of course. What this means in theory is that I can't copy them to CDRs with my computer. (Now might be a good time to add that this is a violation of my fair use rights.)
However, what "copyright protected" means in practise is that I can't use the albums anywhere. "...may have some problems playing this CD in car stereos" it says in tiny little characters buried deep within the liner notes.
Heh. Try "am unable to play the CDs in my computer, in Charlie's car, in Peter's car, in my mini stereo, and in my discman." So I'm limited to listening to them on one stereo, when I'm in one area of my apartment. And I paid $40.00/CD for this, why?
And god knows, when I buy a CD that's a bunch of crap filler (Ayumi Hamasaki, dear gods what was I thinking), I want to be able to burn the good songs onto a mix CD so I can enjoy them whilst forgetting how you've ripped me off. But I can't do that now.
So from now on, you're the one who's going to lose out - on a whole lot of my money. I'm patient; watch me get all those CDs I want from BookOff and Tsutaya, but never ever again from you.
That will be all.
I've spent quite a bit of money on your new albums recently (like, several hundred dollars worth), and how do you thank me? By making them "copyright protected", of course. What this means in theory is that I can't copy them to CDRs with my computer. (Now might be a good time to add that this is a violation of my fair use rights.)
However, what "copyright protected" means in practise is that I can't use the albums anywhere. "...may have some problems playing this CD in car stereos" it says in tiny little characters buried deep within the liner notes.
Heh. Try "am unable to play the CDs in my computer, in Charlie's car, in Peter's car, in my mini stereo, and in my discman." So I'm limited to listening to them on one stereo, when I'm in one area of my apartment. And I paid $40.00/CD for this, why?
And god knows, when I buy a CD that's a bunch of crap filler (Ayumi Hamasaki, dear gods what was I thinking), I want to be able to burn the good songs onto a mix CD so I can enjoy them whilst forgetting how you've ripped me off. But I can't do that now.
So from now on, you're the one who's going to lose out - on a whole lot of my money. I'm patient; watch me get all those CDs I want from BookOff and Tsutaya, but never ever again from you.
That will be all.
