Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far?

[Murder Simulator]

They hide in video memory now. That's pretty wild.

[alpha]

alright, this made me laugh, now that sony added rootkits and everyone found out about it, less people are buying CDs because they are afraid of what they will do to their computers, and they can't be burned, or converted to be put on their ipods and such. So this is making more people go online and illigally download the music, which is exactly what sony was trying to stop. by trying to protect their digital rights, they just reduced sales and increased illigal downloading. ha

[Nomadicus]

The entertainment industry is oppressing the people!!! lol

Seriously though, I have a friend with lots of knowledge about this tell me 4 years ago, that breaking the seal on a DVD is technically violating a copyright. I am not surprise to see SONY do this legally!

[Murder Simulator]

The user can simply apply a fingernail-sized piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disc, rendering session 2 - which contains the self-loading DRM software, unreadable. The PC then treats the CD as an ordinary single-session music CD, and the commonly used CD "rip" programs continue to work as usual.

http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp...297&cat_id=582

[WalkinTarget]

The highly controversial XCP digital rights management (DRM) technology bundled by Sony BMG on 52 of its audio CD albums can be defeated by applying a small piece of tape to the discs, according to analyst firm Gartner.


http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ape-defeats-cd

Late breaking news: All tape outlawed by music companies !!!
:P

[alpha]

ha, ha sony is being sued over this ha, ha

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...112100645.html

so well deserved

[Murder Simulator]

If you ask me, sony and the RIAA are going about this whole DRM thing all wrong. Music is not consumed like food. Music is listened to, in your car, on your PC, on TV. Music is about freedom of expression. Once the song is over, does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to listen to it again till dinner?

Are there callories associated with different bands? Heavy metal? Light rock?
I can repeat a single track on any media player I have on my computer. Suppose I just want to listen to one song over and over again. Does that make me a heavy eater? Should I be made to pay 99 cents each and every time I listen to the same track?

Do these headphones make me look fat? How long after I've "digested" a song does it take for the music to "pass" through my system? If I don't like the song I'm listening to and decide I want to hear something else, am I charged for the first song even though I only "ate" part of it?

I can see it now: free Mcmusic download when you supersize your happy meal!

That's the kind of absurd corporate nightmare sony has planned for our future folks.

[juneau]

This made me chuckle