If my memory serves me correctly, this "royalties on used CD's" thing has been tried before - and didn't go very far.
I guess all the legal expenses are making them fiscally grab-happy, so they are having another go at it.
Certainly gives newly enhanced meaning to that CD Player with the "special attachment" Ðiego posted a while back (in Hyperspace) .
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Copyright means the copy of the CD/DVD burned with no errors.
I will never spend a another dime on content that I can’t use the way I please. If I can’t copy it to my hard drive and play it using the devices I want, when and where I want, I won’t be buying it. Period. They can all take their DRM, broadcast flags, rootkits, and Compact Discs that aren’t really compact discs and shove them up their bottom-lines.
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