June 15, 2005

Et Tu Foo Fighters?

My dilemma from last week happened again, thanks to the Foo Fighters releasing a double disc, that happened to come with a free download of a "never before released song" just like the Coldplay disc from the week before.

Only thing is, the Foo Fighters tried to up the ante. Not only did they do the evil WMA download, they also did that lame thing called "copywrite protecting" the CD. Oh no, what is a boy to do?

This boy happens to hold down his shift key, which disables autoplay on any windows PC. In other words, the itty bitty program that protects the CD never gets run. So, I can put the CD on my hard drive as an mp3, not copy protected wma. This means I can listen to the song using the software of MY choice, not THEIR choice.

Its my music. I should be able to listen to it how I want to. I shouldn't be forced to use shitty microsoft media player. I shouldn't have to spend money, so that I can listen to music that I already paid for, so I can listen to it in these other programs.

Fuck you Bill Gates. You have enough fucking money. I'm not out buying a slow ass Mac, that I can't tweak like a PC. I'm not a big enough geek to run Linux. I have your windows as an operating system. Stop trying to make me use the microsoft brand enema. Fucker.

1 Comments:

Blogger Froyd said...

hahaha! yeah, autoplay is shut off on my computer as well.

I like the fact that they have such low regard for the consumer that they tied the copyright protection into something that could be turned off.

Thu Jun 16, 03:09:00 PM CDT  

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