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Sony Adds New Copyright Method to CD's in 2003

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slave:
This is disgusting.  Fuck $ony they are as bad as Microsoft!!

http://www.idg.net/ic_965667_1794_9-10000.html

     
quote: Once the music data is decoded, it can be replayed through SME's Magiqlip software, a music player for Windows PCs. Using Magiqlip, the music data can also be copied for backup purposes along with the key, which must be uploaded for verification to SME when the music backup is restored, SME said.
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So I guess Linux and Mac users are left out in the cold, huh?  Shitty proprietary garbage.  And note the text highlighted in bold.  Can you say "spyware"?  I knew you could.

   
quote: Copied music on a hard disk drive can be transferred to audio devices that comply with SME's OpenMG digital rights management (DRM) technology for a number of times set by the music company. [See "Sony develops new copyright protection technology," Aug. 7.]
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Oh that's just great.  Not only will you have to use Windows to decode the audio, but you'll have to have a god damn Sony authorized audio device with Digital Restriction Management built into it to listen to it away from your computer. And not only that but you can only copy it as much as Sony says you can.  What fun!

Tell us Sony, what's the point of CD's you can only listen to while sitting in front of your PC??  I mean, who would buy that?  This is the stupidest idea ever.

I think evil media companies like Sony and Disney are the chief driving force behind Palladium/DRM, not Microsoft.  Microsoft is just catering to their sick tastes.  Maybe M$ also finds the spyware possibilities appealing, or the "invisible ink" feature in email.

[ November 23, 2002: Message edited by: Linux User #5225982375 ]

RudeCat7:
If it can be played....it can be recorded.  :D  

You have to think outside the box (pc)

pkd_lives:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I live in one of Americas greatest musical areas (I would say that apart from maybe Britain, there is no-where better on Earth for good music). A lot of music I listen to is not on released CDs. It's stuff the groups have put together just to show people what they are like, and get them to come and support them live. I listen to stuff on small labels, these guys cannot afford to loose their audience to proprietary media stunts. They burn their own CDs, and I for one will buy them. I will not buy any CD that enforces any proprietary conditions on listening to it. And if that means I have to search even harder to find good music, well that is a price I have been paying for years anyway.

And as it is designed to protect music made by Limp Biskit, Korn, Britney Spears, Paul Okenfold, Vanessa Mae, U2, Harry Conic Jr. etc. etc. These are groups and artists who produce nothing of any interest to me, they offer nothing new. And they certainly don't produce anything worth buying, and to be honest I feel most groups who have major record deals are pretty crap.

The problem is one of economics. Don't buy and they will revert, I don't have Sucker written large on my forehead.

preacher:
People will not pay more money for less functionality. It will not work. Do you think people would start paying $40,000 for cars that can only be driven on highways when they can pay $20,000 for cars that can be driven anywhere? Any time consumers are about to lose out, we rebel the only way we know how. We dont buy the product. Dont worry about new expensive copyright protection. It is doomed to fail. If not, we can always move back to cassettes.

KernelPanic:
I absolutely hate Sony Records, I havnt bought any of their stuff for a long because of this kind shit (not that my lost custom really harms them)

The sad thing is that sony own so much of the industry. Just looking through some CD's lying here on my desk I can see 5 different record companies that are all owned by Sony, its ridiculous. AOL Time-Warner and Sony are EVERYWHERE and it really is awful, because they are two obscene companies. Sometimes I wish I had some nukes, but you know what, i't wouldnt make a difference there would just be a new Microsoft, AOL TW, sony records etc. Our world is a in a sorry state, unfortunately we have nowhere else to live...

[ November 23, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]

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