A letter...
2003-02-16 21:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blufiveDear record company,
A couple of weeks ago, I purchased the recent album by "The Music"1. It's a good album.
However, in your infinite wisdom, you appear to have applied some form of "anti-copy" technology to the CD. I do much of my music listening via the CD-ROM drives fitted to various computers, both at home and at my workplace. The anti-copy technique used prevents several of these computers playing my CD. In some cases, it actually crashes the machine. The CD was broken, in other words.
Luckily for me, my computer at home with a CD writer plays it just fine. So I made a copy, which seems to work quite happily in other machines.
Your anti-copy measure didn't work; it actually forced me to copy the CD in order to listen to it.
All your "anti-copy" efforts achieved was an annoyed customer, and one more CD copy in the world. Well, two copies, actually, as the first copy was broken in the same way as the original.
In future, please don't do anything so stupid.
Sincerely, etc.
1I ask you, what sort of name is that for a band? Makes it bloody impossible to find them in the catalog of online music stores, for a start.
A couple of weeks ago, I purchased the recent album by "The Music"1. It's a good album.
However, in your infinite wisdom, you appear to have applied some form of "anti-copy" technology to the CD. I do much of my music listening via the CD-ROM drives fitted to various computers, both at home and at my workplace. The anti-copy technique used prevents several of these computers playing my CD. In some cases, it actually crashes the machine. The CD was broken, in other words.
Luckily for me, my computer at home with a CD writer plays it just fine. So I made a copy, which seems to work quite happily in other machines.
Your anti-copy measure didn't work; it actually forced me to copy the CD in order to listen to it.
All your "anti-copy" efforts achieved was an annoyed customer, and one more CD copy in the world. Well, two copies, actually, as the first copy was broken in the same way as the original.
In future, please don't do anything so stupid.
Sincerely, etc.
1I ask you, what sort of name is that for a band? Makes it bloody impossible to find them in the catalog of online music stores, for a start.