I realized a while back that the industry’s approach to intellectual property disturbed me on a level well below my intellectual understanding of the legal issues: these guys were determined to extract every penny they could from their “property” - if they could find a way to make you pay a licensing fee to on their tunes they would cheerfully do so - and the resulting legal battles and copyright technologies and general level of inconvenience and unpleasantness just eventually turned me off to recorded music entirely, I rarely buy anything these days, and when I do I buy it used on CD on Amazon.
Err, that SHOULD be:
I realized a while back that the industry’s approach to intellectual property disturbed me on a level well below my intellectual understanding of the legal issues: these guys were determined to extract every penny they could from their “property” - if they could find a way to make you pay a licensing fee to hum their tunes they would cheerfully do so - and the resulting legal battles and copyright technologies and general level of inconvenience and unpleasantness just eventually turned me off to recorded music entirely, I rarely buy anything these days, and when I do I buy it used on CD on Amazon.