I hate you, RIAA- I hope you die a painful death

Hey, thought I would share this to see if anyone else could relate.
 
Well, I just purchased the "Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day" CD. I listened to it in my car stereo on the way home and really liked it. Got home and wanted to copy the songs to my iPod. Put it in the cd drive and the cd drive won't recognize it at all. After a little research I discovered that it was not my drive; it was the CD. It is broken by design. "May not play on some CD and DVD players"
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I'm so angry I could chew nails and spit tacks!
 
I considered my options:  I like the CD and don't really want to return it. I suspect that it's not the band's fault, and just some nameless suit at Sony or wherever. But I probably will return it on principal.
Still, I know that my returning it won't make any real difference. I am a statistically insignificant portion of the record company's bottom line. Is there anything we consumers can really do to get these companies to treat us decent? Honestly, I doubt it- but I know that I will be looking for the "may not play" disclaimer from now on, and I won't be purchasing any more music of the intentionally broken sort. Oh well, my friend is trying to get me to listen to more classical music anyway


GN

That's what they say to do, just return it saying it won't play on your computer. When places like Best Buy start getting millions of CD's/DVD's returned, I'm sure they will start b!tching.

well I bet you can play the cd *IF* you do not let it install the crap-ware.

for an audio cd to work it has to be "red book" and for a car cd player to play it that's "red book" so the disk must have mixed tracks with a pc data track that runs an auto-play that installs some crap on your pc that messes with your system.

so i'd say return it with a lot of complaining - harras the label telling them they broke your pc and have to pay for repairs etc...

get them to tell you how it works etc...


and how to remove it.

and see if there is any legal action you can find, some of this crap is getting law suites for what they are doing.

read more here: http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/sony-you-dont-reeeeaaaally-want-to_09.html