Good music, bad business.

According to an article from newscientist.com by Barry Fox, any attempts made to copy protect CDs from music piracy will be futile. Because of the fluid nature of the technology industry, hardware and software providers will easily be able to complete and distribute patches that undermine the music industry’s attempt to copy protect. Mr. Fox suggests the music industry ought to drop the price of compact disks stating that users would probably rather pay a few bucks for a CD, rather then spend the time and effort into download and burning their own CDs.

Absolutely I agree, the only thing the music industry will do if it insists on introducing these “copy protections”, is piss off paying customers because as Mr. Fox notes, these new protected CDs won’t work in all regular CD players, some car, and portable CD players will not able to listen the copy protected music. Furthermore, If I take a regular CD and play it through any CD player, I can take a simple Y cable and patch the CD music into my PC. After, I can do make mp3’s and upload them to who ever I choose on.

See The Register for the story on the BMG's copy protection scheme .