Re: Sony taking SRM too far...
 

No. It isn't.

All it does is treat ordinary consumers as criminals while doing nothing to stop the actual large-scale pirates.

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

Bit more on this sad story:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27426

Re: Sony taking SRM too far...
 

So video rental places treat consumers as pirates then?

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

How do you get that from what I said?

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

You said DRM treat everyone as a criminal. Having stipulations on viewing something, like video rentals do, is DRM.

Companies who go to vast expense to produce media should be allowed to protect their interests, but not in the way Sony did.

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

Sony is backtracking faster than an Italian tank. :D

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

Great metaphor Chris ! :rofl: :rofl:

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

And in other news... Sony's rootkit is being used by hackers of World of Warcraft to hide their cheats from Blizzard's anti-cheating mechanisms. More info here. Nice one, Sony :rolleyes:
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By the way, you cna rip the CD to MP3 easily under Linux and OSX ;)

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

Uh-huh... Sony haven't heard of a Linux LiveCD either ;)

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

That could be the next step, instead of just having software that installs to play the CD they could have a whole live OS that you have to play the CD off of :erm:

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

True, but you could still pipe the cd music in to the computer through line in/optical in, so you'll never stop people doing it, no matter how much fancy coding you do.

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

Seems this Sony sofware also 'phones home' !

> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/200...ecloaking.html

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

No they know that, doesn't stop them trying, Hollywood/mpaa they are on the case

Known as "plugging the analog hole"

http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000113.html

I know thats related to movies but no doubt they would try to include music later

Re: [Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs
 

Unbelieveable.... I can't believe the hole they are digging themselves into. And what a dispicable act that everyone who signs up for the uninstaller gets signed up for more spam from Sony automatically. Thank God for the likes of Mailinator.

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looks like microsofts tools will flush out the rootkits!

http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware...12/414299.aspx