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I immediately stopped buying CD's forever when I encountered the first "copyright protected" CD I couldn't play in my computer.

That was years before the first music downloads were legally available (at least where I live), so you can guess what happened to my music consumption from that point on.

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The copy protected discs were not compliant CDs. Which doesn't mean a whole lot, except that a disc carrying the CD-DA logo won't have any copy protection.

It's almost surreal when you know this, and you search far and wide, but every CD you're interested in buying has that logo missing.

Yup. The last album I bought was one where I couldn't rip a couple tracks and put them on my Diamond Rio (how's that for a flashback?). Then they came out with the "You didn't buy this song, you bought a license to play this song on one media type..."

And I've been digital since then.

You've been digital since before then, since all CDs are digital.

I stopped buying when the content industries declared war on my profession. When they started going after tinkerers for being inquisitive instead of the people who used the resulting code to actually commit copyright violations, that crossed a line for me and, because of that, I will never willingly give them another dime of my money.

To me, it's abundantly clear that people should be responsible for what they do with code, no matter who wrote it. Writing code should never be illegal.

I didn't. But I never bought another Sony CD after the rootkit debacle with "My Morning Jacket"'s "Z".

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