[KoRn]

"I guess the record companies don't have any of the ingenuity."

Very true. Any adaption they have made with technology has been by far offset by pissing off a great many of their customers. The image of multi billion dollar per year record companies suing teen aged kids over a few songs being downloaded couldn't be a good thing from a PR standpoint. lol

[Titan Magroyne]

Any adaption [record companies] have made with technology has been by far offset by pissing off a great many of their customers. The image of multi billion dollar per year record companies suing teen aged kids over a few songs being downloaded couldn't be a good thing from a PR standpoint. lol
Those aren't the only customers they torque off. In their zeal to defeat file sharing, their copywrite protection technology defeats the very customers who play the game their way and buy the CDs. I still, up to very recently, would buy the occasional CD. But it's become increasingly harder to get the dagblasted things to play on my tabletop stereos! I only want to listen to the frikkin music. I'm not burning copies. All I ask is that it work when I hit the playback button on all my sets.

My most recent CD purchases often present a challenge to get them to play. It's not a need to clean the player, as older CDs play just as they should every time. The last 3 Doors Down CD I bought took multiple replacements to find a copy that would play more than three times before becoming invisible to the track counter and refusing to play.

Bought the newest CD from bluesman Gary Moore, returned it the next day because it wouldn't play, got my money back, and downloaded the exact same songs online for free - that, BTW, I'd had access to before the record company officially released the CD. I have wasted my money and time on my last CD purchase. Instead I'm investing in music quality speakers for my PC. My budget is limited, yet it's the only way I can listen at the volume a good song demands, LOL.