![]() ![]() Wheeler "I love Patty Loveless and I love this CD. Neil, she's not buying any more of your music, either, unless you switch companies."Īlbum "Dreamin' My Dreams" Artist Patty Loveless Sample Tags none Review by A. I don't understand your mindset if you do, but that's your right"Īlbum "12 Songs" Artist Neil Diamond Sample Tags Do not buy mom Review by JasonPDX "I spent several hours removing the copy protection malware from my sister's laptop My sister and I will no longer buy any Sony products because of this blatant abuse of her trust. "It's kind of unfair to us," Johnny Van Zant said of the whole affair, no doubt echoing the thoughts of other Sony BMG artists whose albums are now unfairly (albeit sometimes hilariously) trashed, tagged or wholly ignored in favor of copyright bickering at .Ī selection of reviews and tags attached to Sony BMG's recalled titles follow.Īlbum "On ne Change Pas" Artist Celine Dion Sample Tags my dog rootkit Review by Saneless "Show your support of Sony by downloading this album instead. And "rootkit" is now a tag attached to many Sony BMG titles.Īmong the customer "reviews" posted under the Van Zant album last week was this observation: "Regardless of the legendary family name or anything the group does from here on out, they will forever be remembered for releasing this album." "Evil" and "scumware" were among the tags attached to the country duo Johnny and Donnie Van Zant's "Get Right with the Man" - the first album identified by the blogosphere as containing Sony BMG's doomed D.R.M. The list of buggy albums had a little something for everyone - from Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong to Switchfoot, The Dead 60's and Flatt & Scruggs - but in an unfortunate turn for the dozens of artists who could not have known what copy-protection software their overlords would place on their CD's, customers at had little to say about the music. ![]() It also offered to exchange the roughly two million more that customers had already bought. Last week, after a grueling 14-day joust with technology bloggers, who discovered clandestine programming code - called a rootkit - and other embarrassing security flaws in the copy-restriction software Sony BMG had placed on some of its CD's, the music publisher recalled nearly three million affected albums from store and warehouse shelves. "Boring," is one tag recently attached to Madonna's new album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor."Ĭoupled with the longstanding ability for customers to post their own detailed product reviews, it is not surprising, then, that became part water cooler, part urban scrawl space, when the recent Sony BMG antipiracy scandal unfolded. Of course, a survey of recent tags - which, unless they are specifically made private, are designed to be viewed by the public - reveals that snarky Internet shoppers have quickly turned 's tagging system into digital graffiti. This was designed to help shoppers mark items for later consideration ("gift for mom," for example), or to classify products by some personal metric ("exercise music," perhaps, or "wedding tunes"). IN a limited experiment launched earlier this month, the online retailer began allowing about half of its registered customers to post and view "tags" on products - essentially words or short phrases that act like virtual post-it notes. ![]()
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