A Man and his Penguin

I bought the excellent Shannon Noll & Natalie Bassingthwaighte single "Don’t Give Up" today. If only Natalie’s part was a bit lower in pitch, she really sounds like she’s straining to hit those notes!

I love music with this sort of feel - it kinda reminded me of Mylene Farmer & Seal’s duet "Les Mots".

But anyway, I put it into my CD burner and Sound Juicer had a lot of trouble playing it - it was crackly and kept stopping. Which is very strange, as I’ve never had that problem with any other CDs. Then I checked the CD cover, and found that the disc is distributed through Sony BMG. The CD is protected through Digital Restrictions Management, obviously.

But I put the CD into my DVD burner (yes, I have two optical drives in my machine, lucky me!), and that had no trouble playing it.

Who would want to pirate the song anyway? Most Australians don’t really understand and appreciate this sort of music, and it’s played enough on the radio so that nobody really needs to buy the single

What if someone wanted to play the CD in their computer? They might not be able to do it. What if someone wanted to pirate the disc and send it to people on Limewire, or make copies? A pirate is much more likely to have two optical drives, otherwise they probably have a real CD player and a cable so they can record the audio from the CD player back into their computer. A pirate wouldn’t be hindered, but the law-abiding citizen would be inconvenienced. This pisses me off.

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