From: "Dave Ings" 

Good question.

I used to buy quite a few CDs - all of which were immediately ripped to
disk for playing with my various digital music devices. I haven't listened
to a CD using a CD player for several years now, not even in my car.

Now, with all this copy protection about, I have to conduct a federal
investigation prior to purchase to ensure the CD is "clean" and
easily rippable. As that's a hassle, and since in general you can't return
an opened CD, the net result is I now buy very few CDs.

What a great business model. Discourage your best customers from legally
purchasing music. Case in point: I would have bought the Springsteen
"Born To Run" CD by now, but it's released by Sony, so ...
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> I'll repeat a question I asked on another thread.   Why is Sony
> punishing those who buy the music they sell?
>
> /m
>

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