<RANT>
Why this peculiar boycott? What differentiates Sony and Universal from the
rest of the major labels? Well, a company like Warner or EMI, whilst still
complicit in the share-cropping racket that is the recording industry, is
merely reactively evil; it is a large, dumb dinosaur fending off immediate
threats. Sony and Universal, however, are proactively evil. They
have a history of being aggressive in ripping off artists and consumers, and
in pushing for the abolition of freedoms and rights that conflict with their
ability to make a profit.
Witness, for example, Sony's Orwellian revenue-protection régime, which, if
they succeed, will block file sharing at your PC, your phone company and everywhere else, or Universal's declaration of war on Internet anonymity; not to mention
the well-documented history of artist rip-offs.
In short, Universal are the Nestlé of the recording industry. Don't buy their stuff. </RANT>