I thought I’d check out the Sony Connect service, just to see what kind of music they have on offer.
Firstly you have to download a special player. I don’t want to do that. I’ve already got Windows Media Player, Winamp, Nero Player, Real Player, and MusicMatch on my machine. I don’t need yet another player, just becuase some jumped up corporate decides I have to use their proprietary format to listen to their music labels.
However, what really got my back up big time, was that when I tried to find out more, I was taken to this page.
So I not only have to download Sony’s own special player, I have to use that pathetic non-standard excuse for a browser, Internet Explorer. Have Sony and Microsoft gotten their heads stuck up each others butts?
Sony you can stick your connect where the sun don’t shine. Haven’t you learnt anything from the AAC experience yet with your walkmans?
If I buy music online, I want to be able to do with it what I can do with the music I buy in a regular store downtown – play it wherever I like, on as many different machines as I like, without restriction.
It’s companies with attitudes like this, that actually encourage piracy. It’s not just that illegal downloading is free that makes it attractive, it’s the ease of being able to obtain and play the stuff you want to hear, and now, that is a big plus factor. Don’t these corporate clowns realize that everytime they put another hoop up to jump through, another section of the online community that were trying to do the right thing, and pay for their music, just give up, and go back to illegal downloading instead?
Heck, I’ve always been a big radio fan. Beats all this crap anyhow, and with so many AM/FM/Satellite/online radio stations to listen to these days, I find more than enough to fill my listening hours.
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