{"id":474,"date":"2006-01-23T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=474"},"modified":"2006-01-23T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T23:58:53","slug":"the-incredible-accelerating-itunes-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/the-incredible-accelerating-itunes-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Accelerating iTunes boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go Fred<\/A>! And here are some reasons to use last.fm<\/A> rather than iTunes recommendations.<\/DIV>
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Fair Play Means Fair Use Means No DRM<\/STRONG><\/DIV>
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Its not just iTunes should be boycotted, but DRM encumbered music in general. I certainly wouldn’t advise boycotting iTunes only to install a rootkit from a “music” company.<\/DIV>
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Sorry folks that means no Coldplay<\/A>… thank heaven for small mercies.<\/DIV>
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Sadly we can’t listen to “free” Elvis Costello<\/A> either. Naughty Elvis, so much for what you said<\/A> a while back. Phil Collins<\/A> (more small mercies).<\/DIV>
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That’s Capitol Records and Warner Brothers.<\/DIV>
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Does anyone know of a registry or directory of unencumbered music or a blacklist of CDs not to buy? BoingBoing<\/A> is a great source on this stuff, but doesn’t seem to run a directory. Cory?<\/DIV>
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Pledgebank, by the way, is carrying a freeculture petition against DRM<\/A>.<\/DIV>
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Lets close out with a call from one of my all time favourite artists.When I started buying my own records I didn’t tape my dad’s Talking Heads albums- I bought my own. The music was worth it. <\/DIV>
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David Byrne just posted a blog entitled Happy New Year: Don’t Buy CDs from the Big 5<\/A><\/DIV>
So, first they start off suing their customers, and now they are maliciously making it hard for their customers to even listen to music, and they will cripple your music and media player to boot. These guys deserve to go out of business, they obviously don’t love music, and they don’t understand their own customers. <\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
Just to prove there is some good music we need to boycott here is David’s list:<\/DIV>
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1. Neil Diamond — 12 Songs<\/EM> (supposed to be a good CD, too)
2. Trey Anastasio — Shine<\/EM>
3. Foo Fighters — In Your Honor<\/EM>
4. Dave Matthews — Stand Up<\/EM>
5. Alicia Keys — Unplugged<\/EM> (standard)
6. Angie Stone — Stone Love<\/EM>
7. Babyface — Grown and Sexy<\/EM>
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — Howl<\/EM>
9. Charlie Wilson — Charlie last name Wilson<\/EM>
10. Imogen Heap — Speak For Yourself<\/EM>(I almost bought this one)
11. J-Kwon — Hood Hop<\/EM>
12. Kasabian — Kasabian<\/EM>
13. Kings of Leon — Aha Shake Heartbreak<\/EM>
14. Maroon 5 — Live Friday the 13th<\/EM>
15. My Morning Jacket — Z<\/EM>
16. Pink — Try This<\/EM>
17. Santana — All That I Am<\/EM>
18. Sarah McLachlin (her too!?) — Bloom Remix<\/EM>
19. Velvet revolver — Contraband<\/EM>
20. Silvertide — Show and Tell<\/EM><\/DIV>
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Doh! In Your Honor was probably my favourite album of 2005.  And Imogen Heap? Say it isn’t so…See how DRM creeps up on you?<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go Fred! And here are some reasons to use last.fm rather than iTunes recommendations. Fair Play Means Fair Use Means No DRM Its not just iTunes should be boycotted, but DRM encumbered music in general. I certainly wouldn’t advise boycotting iTunes only to install a rootkit from a “music” company. Sorry folks that means no Coldplay… thank heaven for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-7E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}