I have written a followup to this on my blog. Feel free to check it out if interested. -Louis— This post was created by Comment Poster. Want to post thousands of comments to blogs instantly and increase your visitors exponentially? Check it out he…

You’ll receive a discount on Windows in the mail.

However, there’s a better (more effective) way to operate
in this fast-wired world. Boycott organizations which are
responsive, e.g., Amazon. Yeah, strange idea, but read on.
Simply send an e-mail to Amazon (comment/suggestion
page) saying that you will not purchase anything through
Amazon until they stop carrying *any* Sony products.
Then do that. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, since Amazon is
very convenient … but there are always alternatives. This
is a great time to do it, right in the middle of the Xmas
buying season. If a lot of folks did this, Amazon would
have to comply with our demand or suffer greatly … and
this could happen in just a week or two! Having Amazon
drop all Sony products would be something that Sony
might actually feel [or maybe not, is Sony so big that they
can ignore the loss of Amazon outlet?]

BTW, there are other rationalizations for boycotting
Amazon over the Sony CD issue. For one, we (I, anyway)
was sold a poisoned product, and Amazon is the entity
who sold it to me. Granted, Amazon is not legally
responsible, and they are treating the CDs as “defective”
products. But they sold the poison. Also BTW, I’m not
personally against Amazon (or historically, Sony), and I
will miss using their services/products. But I do not trust
Sony any longer and it’s not just a boycott issue … I do
not want products from a manufacturer that treats it’s
customers as adversaries. Their products are not welcome
in my house (or computer) any longer. Same sort of thing
goes for Amazon, except that dropping the customer-
adversarial Sony brand from their catalog would restore
my trust in Amazon, i.e., convince me that they are on
my side, and I’d be happy to return as a loyal customer.

Well, that’s my solution.

Dave.

I would wonder why that are so intentent on “protecting” the low volume titles with an older audience which would anyway be less likely to “share” the music. Was it a dry run? Was it tried here because the target users would be less likely to notice? Was it because the targets would be less likely to have things worth seeing on their computers?

Seriously though, Sony needs to go back to basics. I have been harping on for yonks now about Sony cutting corners over the years. They have the ability to “make” good products and they have a history of a good brand that generally people used to really like (Walkman/Playstation/etc).

Recent Sony actions seem to be a bit of a WTF. I have been keeping a public log of Sony’s MP3 player debarkle, “The Cracking Buttons” issue, on my website. The list keeps growing!

Regarding this latest faux pas, Sony BMG’s mistakes bring home just how desperate traditional music distribution is getting (across the board), and how hard “they” (with RIAA as their rotweiler) are prepared to clasp onto their dwindling market, that just will not refuse to keep slipping away from them. They need to learn, as do the artists and consumers, that we don’t need them anymore. Traditional marketing sells “pop-pap” only to little kids - no names mentioned….”cough…. Spice..G…Girls… Boy…Zzzone… cough”. Quality music sells itself. CDs can always be copied. Analogue output to soundcard - No Autorun and no rootkits in that configuration people.

I hope there share price hits them where it hurts. Boy you gotta love free market economics.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html

My favorite is #5 : a CD called “Suspicious Activity?” by a group called “The Bad Plus”.

Google it and see cover art for this CD.

They are a moraless company.

Neil Diamond’s ‘12 Songs’ Makes Chart History as Artist’s First-Ever Top 10 Debut & First Top 10 Album in 13 Years
Wednesday November 16, 2:45 pm ET

Released on November 8, with first true week’s sales of 92,705, according to SoundScan, 12 Songs is providing the strongest opening week’s numbers of Neil’s career.

I put this very simple question to SonyBMG:

Why are you still selling the Number 4 chart album on Billboard on your own web site?

Who is speaking for the 92,705 customers (Less 4,057 Digital Purchases) who have purchased this CD.? Why do you continue even on your own website to still be offering this CD for sale from these locations?

My full 1750 post of the above and everything else is at
http://netweb.wordpress.com/2005/11/18/sony-promotes-xcp-not-recalling-it/