I am not sure if you guys saw these articles or not... but they're worth checking out.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10005667/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10053831/

Eh. Got a Mac, don't care.

Likewise.

And fuck Sony, just for good measure.

This is more than anti-piracy. Sony Music intends on opening its own 'Itunes' style stores online with the new 6GB and 20GB HD players this X-mas. They are the only brand not to sign onto the contract with Itunes to sell music on-line.

The Jap boss in Sony got sacked a few months ago and they have appointed a far more agressive boss - the first non-jap boss.

This is yet another reason for me not to buy a CD

These are reportedly the CD's that will install this software if you run them on your pc.

— Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
— Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
— Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
— Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
— Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
— Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
— Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
— The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
— Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
— Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
— Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
— Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
— Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
— Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
— Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
— The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
— The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
— Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
— Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
— Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia)



I agree that with this the RIAA is taking things a little too far.

Before you pony up hard earned cash to buy music readily available online for no fee, best consider where the cash is going. Say you are a big Beatles fan like much of the world. Michael Jackson used to own the rights to that collection.... now owns half the rights. so, when you buy Beatles, you are financing that fucker to bait boy booty world wide. Consider the long dead artist. enjoy Jimi Hendrix? Buying his stuff today helps keep his next of kin living high on the hog. wtf?

If you are a fan of a living artist, download the tunes for no fee and send the artist a bone= whatever you feel the tunes are worth to you. If the artist is long dead, do not continue to pay out cash to support worthless kin= f4g hag yoko ono.

The internet is the ultimate equalizer. Do not squander your cash to finance these fucks. The entire collection of recorded music history is available for no fee.

I wonder if this new software is a problem for Sonic Stage - Sony's software...?