More DRM Badness: EMI releases Brazilian DRM CDs That Totally Hose The ir Customers

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Boing Boing.

[snip]

Brazilian mega-star Marisa Monte's new CDs from EMI ("Infinito Particular" and "Universo ao Meu Redor") come with DRM 
that can't be uninstalled, and requires you to "agree" to a contract that isn't published in Portuguese. Even if you 
disagree, the malware is installed.

The DRM blocks you from playing the CD on Linux and MacOS, and from loading it onto an iPod. This, just as the 
Brazilian government has launched a Computers for All initiative to distribute 1,000,000 Linux PCs, seems particularly 
contemptuous of the Brazilian people.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/24/emi_releases_brazili.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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