Damn music industry

[blufive]

So I buy the new Placebo album, and when it arrives, I discover that is has some cack-handed copy-protection included which requires me to install software to play it on a PC. Anyone on Linux is screwed, as is anyone who can't install software for some reason (like me, at work, due to IS security requirements). I suspect I would also be screwed once the march of technology has taken its toll and left present flavours of Windows useless (like I'd keep a spare PC around just to play CDs). Once I have installed the damn software, it plays a cruddy 48kbps MP3 (or something) at me. It won't give me a tracklisting that includes track times. I can't move it around the screen. It has little squitty text that many users won't be able to read. In short, it's a pile of poo.

This one's going back. With prejudice.