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Dec 26, 2005

All I want for Christmas is anything but a fucking CD.

Dear Sony,

Thank you for taking a knotty issue and making it clear-cut. For years I avoided music piracy, preferring to download songs only if I either owned the CD or was trying to decide whether to buy it. I bought music to support the artists who made it, thinking that I was making the right decision by fueling the obsolete business model your industry uses over the free-for-all that is internet piracy.

How wrong I was. Had I realized the depths that your industry would sink to in its death throes, I would have wholeheartedly embraced piracy much earlier. Ripping off multinational corporations and stiffing successful recording artists are bad, but nothing compared to supporting a company that will illegally invade the privacy of its paying customers.

I'm disgusted by your actions, and most of the people I've talked to feel the same way. Congratulations on hastening your own downfall. In the future, I think I'll illegally download all the songs I want, and then MAYBE wire the actual artist some cash.

Sincerely someone else's,
Nick Ciarochi
Nick ::: 5:41 PM ::: 3 comments

3 Comments:

Maybe I'm out of touch but what did Sony do this time?
Also, I really wish there was a way to just mail a few dollars to the artists instead of purchasing CDs, even on iTunes or something like that. It's still more money than they ever see from sales.

By  Amy, at 9:42 PM  

Sony got caught putting spyware installers on CDs. So any Sony CD you've bought for about the past year, don't put it in your computer, because when you do you get a nice big security hole so that Sony can check how many MP3's you have. And of course any stupid hacker who comes along can use it to break into your machine, too. The best part is that since it's a media conglomerate the usual virus/spyware scanners from people like McAfee turn a blind eye to it.

By  Nick, at 4:35 PM  

Well son of a fucking bitch. I knew the soundtrack from De-Lovely would come back to bite me in the ass.

By  Daniel, at 12:08 AM  

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