More Record Industry Reactionism

These guys know no limits to the stupidity of trying to control how people listen to music?

Proud owners of the relatively new Coldplay album, X & Y have been greeted by a rather nice list of things they cannot do with their CD.

You are prevented from playing the CD in "some" CD players:

• CD-recordable or rewritable hard drives
• DVD players
• Game consoles such as a Playstation or Xbox

Great! Why don't they just make a big law that it will be 1993 forever? Which other industries would benefit from a law like this? I'm sure the photographic industry would have liked something that made it illegal to capture an image without using film.

A nice reply to the record industry regarding this is over at the Consumerist blog in their article.

Dear RIAA - here’s an interesting question for you. When you tell your customers (by definition, the only people who are actually guaranteed to have paid for the album they are listening to) that they didn’t actually purchase anything for their twenty bucks, what is stopping them from loading up DC++ next time and just downloading a pristine DRM-less copy of your next shitty release?

There is a nice parody of the Coldplay DRM restrictions. It asks the question, what if these rules were applied to a take away pizza?

Tags:

• record industry
• coldplay
• drm
• music
• stupidity