Finland is no different: Music Industry Still Predictably Asinine

by Chris Seibold Sep 23, 2005

Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally, people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos. If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player.
-Tommi Kyyrä, of IFPI Finland

Or I guess you could consider stealing the songs. In any event this is the kind of muddle headed crap I wish I had read before I wrote my last column. The recording industry is simply infuriating. On the other hand Tommi has everything a guy needs to be an excellent heavy metal band member: dropped vowels, an umlaut, double y’s…

Excellent analysis can be found at Ars Technica.

Side note: I think I might declare today Tommi Free Tune Friday and go download crazy…

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  • Those CD’s needing to play using the player on the CD is nuts. Fine the player is designed to run on Windows, but the player still sucks anyhow. Ain’t these record co’s heard of Java? Least then it could be equally bad on Win/Mac/Linux equally. DRM is the plague unleashed by the money grabbing bosses locked up in their ivory towers. Sadly they are just too far removed from understanding that people don’t mind buying a CD, but they want to be able to play it the way in which they want too…not how some company dictates. They keep trying to destroy the P2P networks through brute force, but things will keep on popping up the more the companies try to pigeonhole users into using what they want to buy, the way they want to use it. Users should be given the freedom to use what they buy how they want to use it without being dictated too by the companies. Sadly it seems the companies don’t see it this way. And the only winners are the criminals *sigh*.

    Nyadach had this to say on Sep 23, 2005 Posts: 29

  • Sadly they are just too far removed from understanding that people don’t mind buying a CD

    Actually, I do mind buying CDs.  I refuse to give those low-life scum-sucking sacks of used douche any more of my money than absolutely necessary.

    Beeblebrox had this to say on Sep 23, 2005 Posts: 2220

  • Hahaha…ok, how about don’t mind buying CDs or downloads as long as they aren’t a scum-sucking sacks of douche company?

    Nyadach had this to say on Sep 23, 2005 Posts: 29
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