We are all too familiar about the Charley Pride album "A Tribute to Jim Reeves" copy protection by Sunncomm.
A women purchased said album and she didn't know it was copyprotected and took it home and it wouldn't play. She sued Sunncomm and won and Suncomm promised better labeling.
Well GartnerG2 conducted an online survey in July of 2002 and found that quite a few people expected to rip a particular CD, play it in another device and give a copy to a member in his/her household and if it couldn't do these things it would alienate the customer toward the music industry and contribute towards the declining sales if the CD was not labeled something along the lines "Copy Protected".
The survey suggested
The music industry is experimenting with selling copy-protected CDs, but there needs to be mandatory warning labels on the CDs or the industry risks seriously alienating consumers. |
So with all of this in mind, do you think the Record Companies should put a warning on the CD somewhere "Copy Protected" ?
The disadvantage to the companie(s) of course is that it would be an obvious target for hacking.
Source: Music Industry News Network
