Sony BMG Gets Stupid
June 3, 2005
Jim Vallance turned me on to the Lefsetz Letter a few weeks back, and his blog is without a doubt one of the most entertaining reads in my daily dose. In today's post he makes a wonderfully insightful comment on Sony BMG attempts to limit CD Burning. As Lefsetz articulately points:
Who exactly is Sony penalizing with its CD
burning DRM? THE PEOPLE WHO BUY THE CDS!! To use the vernacular, this is fucking NUTS! These are your core customers, these are the people you want to PLEASE! Why limit the people who are paying? Why alienate them? Why reduce their usage of a product they have purchased and own outright? To inhibit behavior by those who HAVE NOT purchased the CD?
I encourage you read the post and subscribe to his highly entertaining and often insightful blog.



