"through technological means annoying?"

NO ONE gets to install ANYTHING without my permission and foreknowledge - there's no EULA, no nothing, they just sneak it in...It's sooo counterproductive because there are umteen ways to 'rip' something - you buy an overpriced disc - just want to listen to it and now there's crap tying up your potentially limited resources?!??!?? - no one will pay to put up with that - people would simply stop buying their stuff as Pat has alluded to...

The business model is busted - sneaking invasive software onto people's computers via an ostensibly harmless audio disc would have never worked in the long term - I mean,it was so ill-conceived!

I have a great deal of admiration for Sony and their products that I use both professionally as well as at home, but I cannot understand for the life of me how this EVER got the green light.

Now, if the disc came with a certain number of, Idunno, Itunes dollars for Sony artists, or some sort of incentive program for the purchase of Sony products - perhaps, after a licensed agreement, I *might* be willing to have what now, is essentially crapware, on the computer.

It was a dumb idea improperly approved and implemented - it's cost them reputation and money in the reissues...

Geez, listen to me!

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