AOL Radio and targeted software

I enjoy the AOL Pop Radio remix channel, as i've commented on before. I however hate having to open the bloated crappy slow and generally poorly designed client that is AOL 9.0 security edition. Not only do I have to manually disable random popup advertising on a PAID service, I have to deal with it asking me to install the AOL anti spyware every time it loads. This crap is madness, and appears designed for a person who doesnt know crap about computers.

Why not make it easy to customize the AOL client to load less of this useless crap that I dont need? Why not help your paying customer out by giving them what they want in exactly the form they want. I'm not asking you to add new functionality to your client, just make a little system tray applet that can run AOL radio without loading the entire client.

This gets me back on the idea that companies with paying customers in the software world should target their software like GMail targets its advertising. Give me what I want, in the way that I want, especially if i'm paying you cash for it.

All these software firms are getting too damn greedy trying to lock people into their content worlds, wanting all of the pie, trying to make it harder for consumers to integrate products from multiple vendors into their computing experience. Even worse is the idiots who develop software copy protection that makes life more difficult for people who actually bought the software. Why piss of the people giving you money, it's so damn stupid.

The people who pirate your stuff arent going to pay for it anyway. You idiots, you glaring, greedy, idiots. The most irritating thing I ever have to do is activate copies of Microsoft Windows XP. I just payed you $130 for an OEM copy, please dont freaking hastle me with this product activation bullshit. I know $130 isnt a lot in the total budget of M$, but please, let your unwilling paying customer off with a break, and stop making me call people in india to enter in a billion digit product activation override code. Shame on you.