Anarchy for the Coldplay DRM run amok


A wonderful case of uninformed consent in the making  I'm not a lawyer, as my bank account would readily testify but sometimes

K for the record, magnetic tape, Cd or non volatile ram I'm vehemently opposed to pirates be it software, music, books or anything else these looters can get their hands on.  I.e  I veer towards the "Randian" worldview when it comes to creators rights and their say in how their efforts are provided, if at all, to the marketplace.   Perversely I love it when the creators, or their agents, get it so wrong that they alienate their customers to the extent shown above.  Note the affected people are the buyers of the disc, there's no impediment to people sticking this in a cd player with a digital output into a similarly equipped card on the pc and making a copy that when reduced to mp3 would be , come on now it's not  "hi fi" here, indistinguishable on an ipod and headphones.

So, to riff on Master Lao for a bit  Chapter 17.

"If you don't trust the people, 
you make them untrustworthy."

While probably  grossly out of context too and maybe even  a tautology too far  it's been my experience that people will fulfil the mold that you cast for them.  Circumventing their cheap parlor tricks is not the answer, after all they already "know" you're a bunch of thieves. 

 
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