& it looks like music fans aint happy about it either.When will they ever learn the copy right protection aint the way to go.
How nice of them to let us make 3 copys in WMA DRM crap format.
Recent CDs by Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews Band containing new anti-piracy technology are selling well despite a backlash among some fans angry that the discs are incompatible with iPods, experts said on Thursday.
Aiming to curb piracy, labels like Sony BMG, which released both records, are rolling out copy-protected albums in the United States, which let users make three exact duplicates of a CD, and store files on a PC in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media format.
"But the copy-protection bars users from importing music onto iPods since Apple's Fairplay software is incompatible with Windows.
This (Foo Fighters) CD has a copy protection scheme that makes it totally useless to 30 million iPod owners,"
"How could a band be so stupid as to alienate such a huge percentage of their fans?"
About one-third of the 252 customer reviews of the Foo Fighter CD this week on Amazon, which prominently displays the fact the album is a copy-protected CD, complained about the copy protection.
Record executives said they were continuing talks with Apple Computer Inc. to make these CDs compatible with iPods. In the meantime, Sony BMG also released versions of each album to Apple's iTunes service.
YaHoo newsOther copy-protected albums recently released in the United States include EMI's latest Jermaine Dupri album.
