Ars Technica has a great article from a Finnish newspaper today, where a representative from a Finnish recording group (think RIAA, but proto-Uralic) said that playing back a CD on a computer was a priviledge, not a right. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about this since Ars does a great job of it, but here’s one quote that stuck out to me:
“If you are a Linux or Mac user, you should consider purchasing a regular CD player.”
Holy crap.
I hope this guy is mauled in the street by a group of rabid Lapplanders, at least one of whom is a were-reindeer or something. Seriously, these big media conglomerates need to realize that they’re going to hamstring themselves, particularly by targeting subgroups of users who have a historical tendency to be both rabidly committed and savvy.
