[extropy-chat] sony messing up computers

[Emlyn]

I love the fact that they are now giving people good solid reasons to
get Sony published music through other channels like p2p networks. No
one in their right mind would stick a Sony CD into a PC ever again.

But I've been avoiding all of their products for years. They have this
habit of making truly excellent hardware, then rendering it unusuable
for all practical purposes due to the myriad truly draconian "drm"
technologies they include.

You would *think* they would learn, after recently losing a market
they used to own (walkmans) to apple (iPod). I always assumed that a
large part of that failure was due to the stupid drm crap in their
offerings.

--
Emlyn

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On 16/11/05, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> My favorite bit: it's even gotten into military computers.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69573,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
>
> I can just imagine Mr. Rumsfield (for those outside the US: our current
> Defense Secretary) giving Sony's CEO a call and politely asking whether
> he should cancel all DoD contracts with Sony, immediately and
> permanently, to ensure the security of his computers.  The CEO can try
> to explain things and calm the customer down, but that the threat would
> at all seem even potentially justified...
>
> --- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > This is a hell of a note.  Sony wrote a virus to
> > stop piracy, now it helps virus writers.
> >
> >
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/c/a/2005/11/12/BUG0MFN2SU1.
> > DTL
> >
> >
> >
> >
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