[Hudlug] Elvis Costello! I spit on the floor!

[Les Burns]

Poor Elvis, bit old out and out of touch. Well its like they say
"accidents will happen". I'm sure he didn't personally condone the DRM
aspect of the cd, but almost certainly, the ST did. I'll never buy it
again. Its the lowest of the low to back door such "upgrades". It begs
the question as to why anyone would use a M$ product- There are
literally no advantages in using the windows platform, their media
players suck and Office XP is overpriced krudd.

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 10:16, Chris Lindley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I dunno who gets the Sunday Times (major M$ bootlicker!) but there was a
> free cd given away with it last sunday!
> 
> It's a demo of Elvis Costello's latest album, with some audio tracks,
> and some MP3's.  The MP3's are DRM encoded. they will only play if
> windows will d/l the latest version of Media player, which has all this
> DRM stuff in it.  You can then only play each track 4 times. Each time
> the player connects to a M$ database over the internet, then stops you
> playing it a 5th time!
> 
> What a disgrace!  This has also happened previously. Oasis had a free
> demo.  I've both as IU do subscrive to the Sunday Times.  Although I
> reckon I may cancel my subscription.
> 
> I always wondered why such a paper was giving away cd's liek this.  Well
> I reckon that they're being paid by M$ and Creative (they have sponsored
> the cd) to get stuff like this in general distribution, so people will
> have they're media player upgraded to DRM without them knowing!
> 
> It's a disgrace!
> 
> Read about it on The register and Slashdot.
> http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26387.html
> 
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/2345215&mode=flat&tid=141
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> Sad day for anti-establishment Elvis Costello!
> 
> -- 
>   Chris Lindley                                  
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