Sony takes DRM waaay too far

[Dieter]

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html

 

Summed up: the Sony DRM protected cd's install stuff on your pc using malware techniques to conceal itself, then scans your CD once every two seconds (!!) to check if it's the right filesizes for songs and everything, using about 1-2% CPU time.

 

If you manually try to remove the concealed stuff, you WILL cripple your pc.

 

You HAVE to install it, because the stupid cd's will only let themselves play using the .exe on the disc... not any other media player. Fuck that shit.

 

 

I hereby give Sony the royal finger.

[Bren]

i join you! FUCK SONY!

[AshMat]

WAHOOO i get to slag of sony yes!

 

FUCK SONY!

That felt good

[Charlie]

So people with Mac's aren't allowed to listen to Sony published music CD's now? Not allowed to put music you LEGALLY own onto an MP3 player?

 

Bullshit, Sony.

[Raining_again]

thats gunna go down like a ton of bricks! as moira said, how can you put your legally bought music on an mp3 player? an illegal hack maybe? booo down with Sony!

[Konfucius]

Such things should be illegal, no word about it in a licence agreement and slowing down your PC too.

The music industry is crying how piracy harms their sales but with such moves they shoot themselves in the foot because I'm certainly not buying a CD that installs malware on my PC and the problems is that your friendly neighbourhood hacker-man finds a way around the malware and the illegal stuff then works better than the legal one.

[Mr_Odwin]

That's odd. How can a CD that plays in a normal CD player not play on the comp except through a special media player?

[Aimless]

thats gunna go down like a ton of bricks! as moira said, how can you put your legally bought music on an mp3 player? an illegal hack maybe? booo down with Sony!

Don't worry, I'm sure everything'll be fine so long as you have a Sony-branded player. I mean, who doesn't have one of those?

 

Oh...

[Calza]

Don't worry, I'm sure everything'll be fine so long as you have a Sony-branded player. I mean, who doesn't have one of those?

 

Oh...

I have two and my friend has another and they rock except for sonicstage which sucks

[Guest Offerman]

That's odd. How can a CD that plays in a normal CD player not play on the comp except through a special media player?

 

It wont play on a normal CD Player. Which is where the real problem exists.

[Charlie]

Coming to think of it, my RHCP Greatest Hits CD wouldn't let me record it onto the PC a year or so ago and would only play through a special media player. I recorded it fine onto my Mac a week ago. Still wont let me record it on the PC though.

 

Solution: Buy a Mac!

[Lammie]

Don't worry........I'm sure there'll still be ripped versions of the Sony DRM CD's available on BT.

 

Solution: Bittorrent.

[Chanser]

They always say Bittorrent is a bad thing .

[AshMat]

I have the same problem as moria with my RHCP GReatest hits cd.

My dad managed it on his pc but with special software.

[Guest Offerman]

There will always be ways around it, which is no bad thing.

[Blackfox]

True. Everything is vunarable to exploits and hacks. Some clever chap will work out a way around it, and Sony will have wasted all that money researching it.

[Dan_Dare]

thats kneejerk bullshit right there. it pisses me right off when cds cant be copied to itunes.

 

saying that though, X&Y was copy protected but that stopped working on the new versions of itunes, of which there have been many recently.

[CVD]

It's encouraging people to illegally download music seeing as cd's wont work the way you want them to. It's nothing but bullshit.

[Mr_Odwin]

As long as you can play it on the comp then all you have to do is run a sound recorder program at the same time. Just record to a 44100Hz 16 bit stereo wav file and then cut n' compress.

[Kurtle Squad]

Yeah...And they rip you off with Multi-taps & UMDs....and soon Blu-Ray

[gmac]

yeah sony suck

for the most part if you turn off auto-run that seems to help, but otherwise the cd usually lets you copy it to another cd, and then you can rip the tracks to mp3 off that one

[rizz]

Lol, my Ep2 soundtrack was protected, and the case said it wouldnt play on a pc or mac. The first thing I did was rip it with WMP.

[Guest Jordan]

Ha, someone cracked it already. Apparently you just have to add ~Sys~ to the command line when you open it in another player/ripper.

 

Stupid Sony...

[Hellfire]

Next thing you know you can't use your friends' CDs!

Wait a sec...

[RoadKill]

Coming to think of it, my RHCP Greatest Hits CD wouldn't let me record it onto the PC a year or so ago and would only play through a special media player. I recorded it fine onto my Mac a week ago. Still wont let me record it on the PC though.

 

Solution: Buy a Mac!

 

Wrong! You can't play these new Sony protected CDs on a Macintosh at all, because it only allows you to play it using a Windows executable.