Marisa Monte - Infinito Particular
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Free Music Review: my PC runs real slow now, ipod doesn't work
Hit: 1 Stars
It didn't play in my 4 yr old stereo system (Pioneer TX-970). So, I put it in my PC. You must accept some weird agreements about some software that will be installed. So I did. The music played but I could hear clicks every so often. I tried to remove the software but no way. And I couldn't get this onto my ipod. Now I'm stuck with this junk CD.
What a nightmare, avoid like plague!
Free Music Review: Warning: anti-piracy device embedded
Hit: 2 Stars
This is not a review of the contents of this new pair of "twin" records from Marisa Monte. It is a warning to the buyer. Marisa Monte's two new discs are manufactured with anti-pirate software that prevents the owner of the disc from converting the songs into a format that can be loaded onto an iPod.
While I acknowledge that those who have property rights in works of art and music should be entitled to take reasonable measures to prevent damages caused by illegal and unauthorized commercialization of these works, I do not believe that the this sort of anti-pirating device is a reasonable measure. It interferes to an extraordinary degree with the reasonable uses of the legitimate purchasers and consumers of the music. iPods and mp3 players are ubiquitous. CDs as a medium for repeated play of music are fast being abandoned; rather, manufactured and packaged CDs now more than ever are simply a medium for moving music from the record company to the consumer in a symbolic format, but is certainly not the preferred format of repeat play any more.
Not only is this anti-piracy measure unreasonable to the extent it interferes with legitimate customer use of the product, but I am also skeptical that damages are as real and material as record companies believe. The record industry has been in decline for many years, and not exclusively because of the expansion of piracy. The market has been saturated and transformed. In most industries, a marketeer knows that you cannot count on mass consumption anymore. Consumers have become fragmented in their tastes and preferences. Gone are the days of massive pop phenomena. Pop records simply are not the same symbolic media of community and consumption that they were in the 1970s.
Further, are record companies justified in defending monopoly profits that allow music stars to live like ... well, like music stars?
Also, are the consumers of pirated music - generally lower income people in low and medium income countries - really potential consumers of $17 compact discs? Is the teenager in the street of Mexico City or Sao Paulo really someone who has $17 to spend on the latest ____ disc? Aren't these people who but for piracy would be marginalized and excluded from the music market? If anything, their demand for music would be much lower than it actually is, if their only option were $17 cds embedded with anti-piracy software.
Finally, I doubt this sort of device will be effective against true copyright pirates for long. Piracy is a profitable business that employs technically savvy criminals. I would not be surprised if within a short time, pirates somewhere, somehow, "reverse engineer" or "crack the code" of the anti-pirate devices that are used on this record. The only ones who don't have the time, resources, and technical skills to reverse engineer or crack the code are the consumers, the legitimate paying customers like me who only want to be able to listen to this music on an mp3 player or computer.