That's an Oxymoron If I've Ever Heard One

[Jason Tate]

Yellowcard (http://www.yellowcardrock.com)'s new album will employ "user-friendly copyright protection." As will all EMI releases in 2006. After the Sony debacle how any label or band can allow this to happen is beyond me. Record sales are going to be hurt, big time from the idiodic business decisions of major labels.

Source: HitsDailyDouble.com (http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi)

[thehighwaysend]

well, looks like i'll be buying it on itunes

[anamericangod]

user friendly = a small child paid to follow your every move and report any activity of copyright infringement

[Rohan Kohli]

Lame.

[Jason Tate]

Ps: I recommend everyone install something like this: http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2 on your computer. I'm against illegal-downloading without purchasing; but I'm more against invasions into personal computers.

[anamericangod]

Ps: I recommend everyone install something like this: http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2 on your computer. I'm against illegal-downloading without purchasing; but I'm more against invasions into personal computers.


great program

[KidLightning]

sadly a lot more albums have copy-protection than people realize. what's funny though is that it's so easy to get around it's just ridiculous and pointless. luckily I use a mac and no one has created any copy protection scheme that works on there. copy protection will never work until the record companies control both the software and the hardware.

[astereo]

thats weak..
really ****** gay

[theESCO]

Ps: I recommend everyone install something like this: http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2 on your computer. I'm against illegal-downloading without purchasing; but I'm more against invasions into personal computers.
what exactly does that do?

[getupkid53]

. Record sales are going to be hurt, big time from the idiodic business decisions of major labels.

It should say idiotic business decisions by major labels.... and Yellowcard. That is funny though. It's like Yellowcard and their label are doing everything in their power to have you not buy their CD.

[theESCO]

Maybe Harper should put a "user friendly counter" on all Takeover Bands' Cd's to show how many albums YC sells
what?

[thewebguy]

if they have a pair they will not let emi release their cd at all

does anyone know what this will do for tooth and nail/solid state? they are part of emi i believe.

[theESCO]

A nice little app displaying "lights and sounds" album sales, seeing how if they never got rid of Ben and released their stuff under Takeover, the drm sh*t probably wouldn't be a problem
Im pretty sure the album would still be released on EMI. Id say they have bigger distribution...or maybe I just still have no idea what your talking about.

[Valued at Zero]

Lame.

agreed.

[Elfie7X]

User-friendly must be the new word for buggy-spyware.

[Gregkash]

record sales will be hurt and then they'll just blame piracy.

[atticusfinch]

iTunes will save us all.

[shermanology]

I will so be pirating this. The whole ben fiasco was one thing, but copy protection is just wrong.

[xearlynovemberx]

indeed to what atticusfinch said

[duffe]

:shake:

[jfb392]

I will so be pirating this. The whole ben fiasco was one thing, but copy protection is just wrong.Me too.
It's not even worth buying now.
The founding member leaves, and then they add protection to the cd that doesn't allow me to move MY PROPERTY that I PAID FOR to my computer, an mp3 player, or make a back-up copy.
Pure bullshit.

[MaDeMaN FiAsCo]

This album seems doomed.

[number1alien]

Yellowcard (http://www.yellowcardrock.com)'s new album will employ "user-friendly copyright protection." As will all EMI releases in 2006. After the Sony debacle how any label or band can allow this to happen is beyond me. Record sales are going to be hurt, big time from the idiodic business decisions of major labels.

Source: HitsDailyDouble.com (http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi)

If they're claiming that this form of copyright protection will be "user friendly", then obviously EMI have made steps to improve on Sony's technology. Why don't you just wait to see how it works before you start bashing the fuck out of it?

Also, for the record, copy protection hasn't really impeded record sales that much. The following records all had the technology on their discs:

Alkaline Trio - Crimson (in the UK)
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
Gorillaz - Demon Days (600,000+ copies in the USA)
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (932,000+ copies in the USA)

Those are all pretty successful records, wouldn't you say? You make Copy Protection seem like a major crutch on the industry, when it's simply a minor inconvenience to certain people. Chill out.

[steve-0]

ill download it when it leaks and if its good enough, ill buy it. its still about the music for me

[jfb392]

If they're claiming that this form of copyright protection will be "user friendly", then obviously EMI have made steps to improve on Sony's technology. Why don't you just wait to see how it works before you start bashing the fuck out of it?

Also, for the record, copy protection hasn't really impeded record sales that much. The following records all had the technology on their discs:

Alkaline Trio - Crimson (in the UK)
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
Gorillaz - Demon Days (600,000+ copies in the USA)
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (932,000+ copies in the USA)

Those are all pretty successful records, wouldn't you say? You make Copy Protection seem like a major crutch on the industry, when it's simply a minor inconvenience to certain people. Chill out.It's still a hassel, and it should be against the law.
I own the property (the disc), so why am I not to back it up or rip it to my computer?

[starcrossdlovex]

Yeah, everyone should download Peerguardian.

& record sales are gonna be hurt from this whole ben situation. & now they're digging themselves further down by giving us yet another reason not to buy the cd. Nice.

[Jason Tate]

If they're claiming that this form of copyright protection will be "user friendly", then obviously EMI have made steps to improve on Sony's technology. Why don't you just wait to see how it works before you start bashing the fuck out of it?

Also, for the record, copy protection hasn't really impeded record sales that much. The following records all had the technology on their discs:

Alkaline Trio - Crimson (in the UK)
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
Gorillaz - Demon Days (600,000+ copies in the USA)
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (932,000+ copies in the USA)

Those are all pretty successful records, wouldn't you say? You make Copy Protection seem like a major crutch on the industry, when it's simply a minor inconvenience to certain people. Chill out.
Copy protection isn't the issue, installing programs on my computer is; don't argue a straw-man.

[Elfie7X]

Some random guy will come up with some anti-copy protection software that will not allow the software to install from the CD. It should be illegal. The record companies make enough money as it is, why don't they just let things be?

[minusthejosh]

just another reason i will not be buying this cd, or anything that has to do with yellowcard. it's like their actively trying to have everybody hate them.

[jfb392]

Some random guy will come up with some anti-copy protection software that will not allow the software to install from the CD. It should be illegal. The record companies make enough money as it is, why don't they just let things be?Eric, you just turn off auto-run and rip with EAC.

[ThisIsSoBrandNw]

Im confused with what exactly is going on here...so the new Yellowcard cd can be put onto the computer but it will install a program for the label to watch and see what you do with the music once its on the computer?

[ThisIsSoBrandNw]

Im confused? So is this saying that the new Yellowcard cd can be put onto a computer but when you do it installs a program so that the label can monitor what you do after you load the cd onto the computer?

[weworemasks]

Me too.
It's not even worth buying now.
The founding member leaves, and then they add protection to the cd that doesn't allow me to move MY PROPERTY that I PAID FOR to my computer, an mp3 player, or make a back-up copy.
Pure bullshit.

agreed 100%

although i didnt plan on buying this, it seems like a stretch for me to even give enough of a shit to listen to it.

[theESCO]

I've honestly never had a problem moving a copy protected CD to my computer just using WindowsMedia...wierd.

[screamoutmyname]

record sales will be hurt and then they'll just blame piracy.

Couldn't have said it better myeslf.

[Ruggiero2oo8]

i hate this stuff

[siimpx]

yep won't be buying this one.

[number1alien]

Copy protection isn't the issue, installing programs on my computer is; don't argue a straw-man.

What the fuck is a "straw-man"? Could we speak in English here?

If copy protection isn't the issue, then don't insinuate in the first post that it is. Yeesh.

[dukeboy1986]

Yeah, I will so be buying Saosins LP on ITUNES and FUCK yellowcard. Its a shame Mae is touring with them.

[TheBaroness]

just another advantage of having a Mac...

[dan.is.empire]

funny how they only do this for crappy bands :sealed:

[Nigel]

I've honestly never had a problem moving a copy protected CD to my computer just using WindowsMedia...wierd.
I'm there with you, never had any problem. Maybe they've raped my computer in many ways by installing shit on it,without me knowing about it, but meh.

[ACA]

Heh.. fuck iTunes and their encoding, I won't buy it there.

I'll just buy the CD--no copy protection has stopped me yet from making perfect Lame 3.90.3 (now 3.97) VBR mp3s of my albums.

-ACA

[CrenshawKiss714]

just another advantage of having a Mac... Shhhh, let us tread under their radars quietly, and not scream you can't see me.

[IAPAI]

Shhhh, let us tread under their radars quietly, and not scream you can't see me.

I've got a one up on you: I run a Mac and I live in Canada where, unless something has happened very recently, it is not illegal to use P2P file sharing programs. Cha-Ching!