[Merged] Sony Digital Rights Management probs

[Lew]

Originally Posted by punky

Having DRM is a necessisty

No. It isn't.

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

Bit more on this sad story:

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

[punky]

Originally Posted by Lew

No. It isn't.

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

So video rental places treat consumers as pirates then?

[Lew]

How do you get that from what I said?

[punky]

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.

Originally Posted by atlantis

Bit more on this sad story:

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

Sony is backtracking faster than an Italian tank.

[basa]

Originally Posted by Chris T

Sony is backtracking faster than an Italian tank.

Great metaphor Chris !

[Gareth]

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
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By the way, you cna rip the CD to MP3 easily under Linux and OSX

[punky]

Originally Posted by Gareth

By the way, you cna rip the CD to MP3 easily under Linux and OSX

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

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by punky

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

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

[punky]

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

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

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.

[basa]

Seems this Sony sofware also 'phones home' !

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

[bob_a_builder]

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.

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

[punky]

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.

[kronas]

looks like microsofts tools will flush out the rootkits!

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