Sony Music gets sued HA HA HA HA!!!

[craigwatanabe]

Read this: http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-0097422.html

[pzarquon]

Folks will sue over anything, but this is one class action that I was expecting, and hope succeeds.

It's one thing to put DRM on a CD (and Sony's not the first to do this) -- of course I think it sucks that they want to control what you do with a product you paid for, but, that's the blood-sucking nature of the music industry.

But usually there's a stupid "license" you must read and accept and, for the especially bored, technical explanations of what's being done.

It's another thing entirely to use programming strategies straight out of a hacker manual to hide the software that's installed at the root level of your PC, and to do so with such blundering skill that it corrupts elements of your system in the process (when at the very least they could've done it secretly but also correctly).

Not only that, but the window the DRM opens on affected systems could now be exploited by other malicious hackers. It's one thing to break into your system to cause trouble, but now you've brought something home and put it on your system for an outside party, making your hack in part an "inside job."

[Pomai]

Sounds like some sort of Trojan Horse app'. It has to be. Otherwise why would it damage the computer when you remove it?

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There's a format war looming on the next generation of DVD.

Toshiba and NEC have developed HD DVD, while Sony is ready with their proprietary Blu-ray DVD.

A current red laser single-sided DVD holds up to 4.7 gigabytes, while Sony's Blu-ray disc holds a whopping 27 GIGS. Sony claims they'll eventually be able squeeze as much as 200 GIGS on one mult-layered disc. WOW!

Remember the old battle between Sony's Betamax vs. everyone else's VHS? That's what has many in the indsutry worried about Blu-ray vs. HD DVD. In the end, the experts expect the format with more titles and better anti-piracy security features to win as the standardized format.

200 gigs on one DVD. Incredible.

[adrian]

Sticky tape to the rescue! Sticky Tape Defeats Sony DRM Copy Protection (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/22/1813254)

Sony's XCP technology is stymied by sticking a fingernail-size piece of opaque tape on the outer edge of the CD.

Score one for tape! Soon, it'll be like google and take over the world! j/k

[craigwatanabe]

Sticky tape to the rescue! Sticky Tape Defeats Sony DRM Copy Protection (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/22/1813254)


Score one for tape! Soon, it'll be like google and take over the world! j/k


I'd rather get a donated computer, run the Celion Dion CD, let it crash the hell outta that computer and get on the class action lawsuit and get something outta that outdated computer. I believe Texas is starting another class action lawsuit against Sony.

Oh well.