Re: Corrupt CD updates, Jun-2004

Tim Jackson wrote:
> ... looking at it purely from a practical point of view, I had an
> interesting recent experience showing precisely how "effective" this
> stuff is. (OK, so it's just one example. But it makes the point).
> 
> [...]

A good example; not an unusual situation.


> Glad to hear that at least one label in Germany is starting to
> (possibly; I am very hesistant to give them *any* intellectual
> credit) see sense though. It's a strange world where selling
> customers goods that *aren't* deliberately damaged is notable,
> though...

I've had a bit more feedback from a contact in Germany on this issue.
He suggests that perhaps Universal is attempting some kind of a minor
publicity stunt to get back some customer goodwill by switching away
from the problem formats.  However, as was pointed out here on the
list, it appears that Universal Germany is still required by Univeral
International(?) to corrupt the international artists' releases.

Here is a fairly in-depth German article from a daily paper that he
pointed out, with Google's translation below:

  http://www.faz.net/s/RubE2C6E0BCC2F04DD787CDC274993E94C1/Doc~EC158BDE6F1404D6D8A8BAD5AA28D1357~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

  http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http://www.faz.net/s/RubE2C6E0BCC2F04DD787CDC274993E94C1/Doc~EC158BDE6F1404D6D8A8BAD5AA28D1357~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html&prev=/language_tools

It is interesting that this is seen as a radical step by Universal in
Germany, perceived as Universal breaking ranks with the other labels.
Corruption of audio releases has been near complete in Germany, a much
worse situation than in the UK, with many strange home-brew formats
tried by smaller labels trying to save money on MacroVision/SunComm/
Sony's corrupt-format license fees.  In other words, a very messy
situation.

Jim

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