What's on that music CD, anyway?

[dvdguy4]

Sony CD controversy signals music industry's stuttering anti-piracy efforts

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9973890/

[dphirschler]

Sony deserves every bit of shit that got piled on them. I should not have to buy another copy of the album if I want to put it on my mp3 player.


Darryl

[mats.hogberg]

Well, I've got one Sony product, and that's my PSTwo. I think that will also be my last.

/Mats

[mar-mar]

they puttin in all this effort to stop something when they really are messing things up, when they can barely put out goood artist nowadays

[MozartMan]

Guys,

I guess you missed this big thread:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=283441

[Noahtuck]

Is all copy protection bad?
And, after all, First 4 software is hardly the first copy-limiting program in use. In fact, it's a bit player among Sony BMG albums. Similar copy-limiting software authored by Arizona-based SunnComm Technologies Inc. called MediaMax came loaded on a No. 1 hit album last year by Velvet Revolver, ironically titled Contraband.

I knew there was a reason i did not buy that cd

[GullyFoyle]

I don't want to double post so here is the link to more fun stuff, like sueing SONY.
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1404754#1404754

Their EULA is joyous as well.

[GullyFoyle]

Oh and this is a treat
http://boingboing.net/

Former Apple exec: No more DRM for me, ever
Michael sez, "Mike Evangelist, former Director of Product Marketing for Apple's 'Pro' applications department, has blogged his thoughts about DRM. Like many of us, he is offended by the fact that the fact that the record labels and movie studios treat their customers like criminals."

http://writersblocklive.com/?p=62

DRM - Digital Rights Minimization

rantThe latest episode in the war between music companies and their paying customers (the one where Sony decides it’s OK to surreptitiously take over your PC so you can’t make a copy of the music you thought you bought from them) has finally pushed me over the edge.

I’ve been a big buyer of prerecorded ‘media’ for over 35 years. I have two or three hundred vinyl LPs, several dozen 45’s, a hundred or so audio cassettes, and roughly 60 prerecorded reel-to-reel tapes. They are jammed in my closet with a couple hundred VHS tapes, 450 CDs, and 500-odd DVDs. (Mercifully, I skipped the 8-track, Betamax and laserdisc formats.)

I have to believe the record companies and movie studios would consider me a good customer. But with every day that passes it becomes more and more obvious that the greedy bastards who run these media companies prefer to treat me (and all their customers) like criminals. They continually expect us to pay more for less, and even then they are not satisfied. They want to pretend to ‘sell’ us their product, but they don’t want us to actually have it. Well I’ve had enough.

From this day forward I will never spend a another dime on content that I can’t use the way I please. If I can’t copy it to my hard drive and play it using the devices I want, when and where I want, I won’t be buying it. Period.

They can all take their DRM, and their broadcast flags, and their rootkits, and their Compact Discs that aren’t really compact discs and shove them up their bottom-lines.

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005 at 8:51 pm to Rants.

[lordsmurf]

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