I ran across this great dismantling on Whatever<\/a> of Sony BMG’s truly ludicrous<\/em> new semi-kinda-sorta-DRM free music system last night and just about wet myself giggling.<\/p>\n

\nKid #2:<\/strong> So to recap, what you\u2019ve got here is a system that makes people leave their house in order to download music at their house, and makes them go to a store to get music that they could get at the store, somewhere else.<\/p>\n

Sony BMG dude:<\/strong> Er.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Come on – you know you don’t really have anything important to do. Go treat yourself (to the post<\/a>, not one of their stupid cards).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across this great dismantling on Whatever of Sony BMG’s truly ludicrous new semi-kinda-sorta-DRM free music system last night and just about wet myself giggling. 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