http://www.evanescence.com/exclusiveTrack/index.html
Notice that the ostensible purpose of the "CD checker" software download
is to make the music download available only to people who buy the CD,
but the FAQ page of this download debunks that by revealing that one
person could buy the CD and pass it around to all of their friends to
get the music with.
http://www.evanescence.com/exclusiveTrack/faq.html
This makes it impossible not to suspect some sort of ulterior motive for
wanting as many people as possible to download software of their own
making, as to get the musical treat, you must first download the trick.
The music file is coded to prevent directly networking it from one
computer to another, but if you have your ethernet cables to reach both
computers, then you also have the CD to download it to the other
computer, along with the suspect software.
The actual effect achieved is to instead limit the music to only people
in the United States, and who use one specific operating system in their
computer, which platform just happens to be the signature product of the
corporation least deserving of such a free promotion from a record company.
As a Macintosh user, I'm prevented, just like people outside the United
States, from getting the version of one this song for which I bought the
CD in the first place. While the CD has a lesser version of the song
than video and radio play. Talk about misrepresentation!
I could borrow a friend's PC with my copy of "Fallen" and a blank CD-R
to burn the song to as an audio CD, but friends don't download suspect
software to friends' computers.
Knowing that it's highly unlikely for Microsoft to actually pay Wind Up
Records for this promotion of their monopoly, one can reasonably say
that such a cost is passed down to those of us who buy their CDs.
The only way I can avoid paying for such shenanigans is to stop at the
Evanescence and Creed CDs I've already bought and not buy anything else
from Wind Up Records.
Wind Up Records has nothing to gain from providing a free promotional
service to the undeserving, at a cost of making left-out consumers mad
at them, and their own FAQ debunks the ostensible purpose of this
software, so I want to know just what's in the thing.
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Of course I fear terrorism. A fraction as much as I fear totalitarianism.
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