I too can get pissed at record labels for this kind of sh*t.
I can see some of their point (being a trade-off between legal and illegal song trading). But I think this is not the way to go.
I can get even more pissed that the industry is not going overboard with this. I wish they'd just DRM themselves into oblivion. DRM everything! Make it so no-one can play the discs on anything except X.Y model of Z manufacturer.
That'll teach consumers!
Because that's part of the problem: Joe consumer is not (too much) bothered by this. This means that this will not hurt record sales too much, and therefore it will not be stopped.
More and more records will be DRM'd. But just one at a time, just so it doesn't affect us too much.
The record labels are softening us into the DRM'd world where they dictate what we can listen to, when and for how much.
I soooooo hope they go too fast, consumers revolt and we all go listen to independent music labels
Just my $.02
Just for the record (scuse me
): I normally do not buy CD's. I don't download songs either. I listen to the radio, and that's that. But it infuriates me to see an Industry bully joe consumer in a direction.