Ars Technica: The PC enthusiast's resource Music industry insiders to be screwed as well
Posted 4/8/2002 - 8:54PM, by Semi_On

BMG, a company that at one point seemed to possibly be considering that the vast number of consumers downloading and enjoying music from bands outside the pre-processed, market friendly, generic mush spoon fed to us like drooling babies covered in NSYNC puree', coughing up the barely digestable Strained Britney Spears concentrate our benevolent parents at the RIAA seem to think we enjoy so much, might actually represent a viable market demographic, has announced their latest push into the world of "secure media." This latest announcement targets the music industry members, such as critics, retailers and radio personalities, that consitute the backbone of the RIAA's marketing structure. Promotional CD's, distrubuted weeks before the official release, will now contain the same draconian measures that the RIAA has been touting for nearly a year as the salvation of the music industry from the nefarious media pirates that have ravaged the industry. BMG seems to think this new technology will eliminate the leaking of new music before the official release as if your local radio station engineer doesn't have access to the technology necessary to elliminate these measures. And of course, BMG's announcement is rampant with the usual language.