If you transfer music from CD's to your computer, just listen to, or download music (legally, I hope), you should read the following:
By Molly Wood, section editor, CNET.com
Thursday, November 3, 2005
I hope this is the week that everyone in the world finds out what a root kit is. And I hope it's a week we look back on in amazement, as we consider just how far Sony was willing to go to criminalize consumers in its efforts to preserve control over its product. Because I believe this is the week that Sony effectively declared war on the consumer, announcing what most of us had already suspected: fair use is a joke in the movie and record industry, and the companies who control mass-market content will truly stop at nothing to protect their profits.
Read the whole scary story here.
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