I was thinking of buying the new B[if]tek album, 2020.
However, as it's owned by Sony, the same company that
declared war on
the Internet recently, I will not do so.
If Sony get their way (and with billions of dollars worth of lawyers and
lobbyists at their disposal, they stand a good chance), peer-to-peer file
sharing will be filtered at ISPs' routers, and the result will be
an Orwellian nightmare that makes Echelon look quaint.
It's likely that the ultimate effect will be to formalise the reduction of
the Internet to a one-way broadcast medium, cleansing it of anything that's
not consistent with it being a means of consuming corporate content without
the pesky overheads of due process.
Pity, because the B[if]tek album looks interesting; however, I'm not giving
a cent to the crushing of the Internet. And you shouldn't either.