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Saturday, Mar. 05, 2005 - 10:35 p.m. Fuck greedy record companies� Stopped by the local Circuit City store today. Wanted to pick up two cds that I have been eagerly awaiting their release- �Francis the Mute� by The Mars Volta, and �Aha Shake Heartbreak� by Kings of Leon. Well� All I wanted to do was burn an extra copy of each cd to play in my truck. One copy, that�s all. No problem with the Mars Volta cd- it burned without a hitch. But the Kings of Leon cd I just dropped $14, tax included, on? It contains wonderful new technology from a company called Sunncomm that makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me, a paying customer, to burn a single extra copy of any cd that contains their coding. Now, I understand the problems that the recoding industry has faced in recent years. File sharing has really hurt their bottom line, and the many people being sued in court by their lawyers aren�t likely to spend any money on pre-recorded cds in the future. They are loosing paying customers left and right. But to make the people who pay for their cds alienated by making their cds licensed and impossible to copy? That is just business suicide, if you ask me. I wrote the following in an email that I sent to the record label, the band�s management people, and the band�s website. If more people made their feelings known, the morons who run these dying labels might be able to salvage their business before it is completely dead. But I am not holding my breath. These are the same people who were charging 50% more for cds than for cassettes only a few years back, even though it was a known fact that cassettes were costing them more to produce than cds. Greedy bastards will always be greedy bastards, right? Anyway� Here is the email I sent them all�
Anyone want my copy of the cd? I really don�t think I care to listen to it now�.
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