| 08/21/2005: "Foo Fighters - RCA Records' Ingenious Copy Protection!" |
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| RCA Records has prevented me from enjoying the new Foo Fighters CD I recently purchased. They accomplished this via a poorly devised and poorly implemented copy protection scheme. I have copied in the email I sent to them below. Read on... |
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To Whom It May Concern -
I bought the new Foo Fighters album - the FIRST Foo Fighters album I've purchased. So I bring it in the house and do what I do with all of my new records these days - I rip it and transfer it to my mp3 player (PNY Vibe 1Gb). Only this time when I tried to play the music back - it was all choppy and screwed up. At the time I didn't have the time or energy to screw with it. So now, a couple weeks later, I tried letting the irritating application on the CD start up when I put in the CD - irritating because I want to get down to the music with as few impediments as possible. It pulled up your little interface and attmpted to "Copy Songs" to my computer. Well that seemed to work ok. So I then (via standard windows file transfer) I transferred the songs to my mp3 player. When the transfer completed I turned on my mp3 player and tried to listen to the songs - it just turns off when I select the Foo Fighters folder. THANKS! I then delete the songs and try to sync thru Windows media player - that doesn't work either. Even though, apparently I "downloaded important licensing information" from the CD.
I don't have time for this shit. I am an independent musician and I work a full time job - so essentially I have two jobs. So I just wanted to thank you for making the CD I purchased effectively useless to me. I am a FIRM supporter of the RIAA and their efforts to curb piracy. But this horseshit, my friends, is not the answer. If I have to go through each individual proprietary, quirky, user interface on every CD I buy on an RCA records release, I will just stop buying them. This really pisses me off. Please reconsider this copy-protection scheme. I will stop writing now and see if I can go download a pirated copy of this record - that will probably be much easier than trying to rip it legally to my mp3 player.
FYI - I do not hold the Foo Fighters responsible for this incredibly poor implementation of copy protection. I still think they are great.
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If you would like to inform RCA as to your opinion, email them here: info@rcarecords.com |
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