BMG has been putting the full spin about the new release from Velvet Revolver, the band consisting of non-Axl Guns N’ Roses and Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots. They claim that the large sales of the album, incidentally protected with shift-key-bypassable-SunnComm, means that people are accepting the DRM. But that’s probably not the case, most people don’t realize that the album has this copy protection on it. Furthermore, the copy protection is supposed to prevent users from ripping the albums to MP3, but that only works on Windows PCs, a Mac or Linux can still rip the CD, eliminating the whole problem.
The fact of the matter is that BMG has declared war on our rights of fair use. How long until they’ll also attack our right of first sale for CDs. Frankly this was the one CD I was considereing getting this year, but I’m gonna pass now. You can read a lot more information with some analysis from the Amazon reviews at The Big Picture.