Sony Sued Over Copy-Protection

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i was wondering why content-protected cd's seem to be non-existent to the 2006 releases. in all honesty, i don't know if consumers who accept the eula may be qualified for compusation since most cd's warn you that by agreement you accept all responsibility of any harm deployed. i learned of these crook cd's in latter '04 after purchasing velvet revolver's "contraband." after reading a review about the cd, it completely took me that i hadn't noticed the annotation at the bottom of the back. then again, it had never been inserted into my cd-rom drive. at learning it was protected, i just wanted to find out and certainly all the programs on my computer seem to fail at making a satisfactory copy. imagine a scorpio giving in. i did. until a month or two later, one of my favorite bands, (hed)p.e. released, "only in amerika." another protected cd. now this is where things get interesting. any cd i want to listen to away from home, i make a backup and listen to it. (hed)p.e. allows you to make one copy. by law you're suppose to be entitled to make one copy. however, other copy-protected cd's don't give you an opportunity to do such. so i knew as the epidemic grew there had to be a way to circumvent the issue. (1) i should be allowed to make backup copies, (2) i should be allowed to convert the files into mp3 format to make my mp3 discs, and (3) i should be able to make my own mixed cd's with just the songs i want. after-all, i did buy each of these cd's with my hard-earned money. needless to say, i found a way using a program that was already on my computer. until now, i understood the greed behind the companies (it's not just sony-bmg) using the drm. i had no problem as long as i was warned, bc to make a copy is all based on your knowledge before you insert the cd in your rom. however, this friday i bought the double cd, "masters of horror." which did not warn me and i couldn't figure out where i may have went wrong making my backup. finally it hit me, when i inserted the cd they automatically installed some files even though i didn't accept the program. thus, i had to restore my computer back to thursday. of course, this caused me to lose all my virus protection so i had to upgrade, which took unplanned time. so now i step to the plate announce... if you have roxio, before inserting any audio cd's into your drive (marked or unmarked, protected) open your program. now with roxio open and already set to music cd project (yes like you're making a mixed cd), insert the cd. the prog. blocks drm from loading. under select source files, you should have two d-drive selections (i'm assuming your cd is in d-drive). select, audio tracks. then pick the tracks from panel 1 & add them to panel 2. assure they're in order... then burn. unfortunately, this method will a few seconds to the end of each track but at least you will be able to preserve your original. now, in the same manner they feel it necessary to have the parental advisory clearly shown on the face of the cover. i think they should make sure a warning "FILES MAY BE AUTOMATICALLY INSTALLED ON COMPUTERS" is completely visible on the face of the cd cover and on the cd itself.

Sony's greed and stupidity has led them to harm loyal customers who actually buy their CD's -- or who used to -- while doing nothing to the downloaders. Don't they realize that the vast majority of downloaders wouldn't buy a given CD under any circumstances, that they are not lost market, that downloads do not represent lost sales? Far better to view downloads as free advertising that may increase sales -- if the music is any good, that is, and the price isn't unreasonable.

How do the music companies expect to win this debate? End users/consumers can always use programs that record from line-in sources. Thanks to my sound cards ability to accept optical connections, the line-in source is pure digital content. As long as I can still play my cd through my stereo and plug my stereo into my computer and use Nero WaveEditor (or something like that), I can burn ANY cd they try to copy protect. Software based music protection won't solve ANYTHING ever! I would say that nearly 60% (or higher) of computer users listen to music when using a computer. By breaking a computer you limit hundreds of thousands of people from listening to your content. Smart idea!!! Instead Sony needs to focus on creating their own digital media delivery system or just focus on getting their music catalogue available to the current programs like Napster, iTunes, & Yahoo Music. Sony, embrace the digital era. Use it to promote & distrubute your content. Stop trying to punish customers with these mobster tactics!

I disagree, EULA clearly states

All you dudes ranting here. Just pop your CD in while running linux and you'll have no problems. And if you're wondering which linux distribution you should be running... its gotta be OpenSUSE 10. It ROCKKS !!!

I have two words. SONY...BONY. Hello!

Sony has officially made it safer to steal files over the net than to legally buy it!! They are just attempting to keep an inflated market price that is not at a free market equilibrium point. I bought my 1st CD in 1995 for $14.00, all other technology based industries have reduced cost to compete (what was a computer worth then verse now?) They just have too much EMPIRE to feed and need to realize that anyone with a few thousand bucks can start a recording label and produce and market their own (or other’s) content for much less. All they are protecting is a large marketing / production / distribution network that the internet can and has started to replace. My “Make / Buy” brake point cost is when the blank media + my opportunity cost (time and equipment deprecation) make it better to buy than make. At this point I would pay $4.00 to get a CD that I want with the artwork. I would still rip to my hard drive and use it where and how I want. Bottom line, they are a dying old technology and they know it, but they are using their shear size and power to continue to breath. Death is near, look at General Motors!!

Another fine example of "institutional stupidity" - the component of Group Thinking that allows teams of people to focus on a narrow aspect of a problem while forgetting the broader environment. Common in governements and large, compartmentalized companies...

Lets make this a "NO-SONY Xmas" Thats the best way to teach these champions of arrogance a lesson. It's the only language they understand.

Dear Sony, News Flash #1, This is MY computer, not yours. News Flash #2, Please remove me from your list, for I have removed you from mine

I figured something like this was up sony's sleeve. Just llok at their Mini Disc program that corrupts your mp3's after you have used them 3 times.

I spend a lot of time keeping my computers running well. I don't appreciate having software installed that I'm not aware of. Sony BMG has crossed the trust line. I can't trust the products that Sony BMG sell. I won't be purchasing anything sold by Sony BMG again. Thanks for the disrespect!

No software makers should be allowed to install anything on private personnell devices including computers, without providing the means to uninstall them with a click of a button or mouse. The device belongs to the owner of the device and not the manufacturer of the software.

When will they learn the Internet is not the problem, it's the garbage music the record companies force us to buy on overpriced CD's.

I used to buy Sony products....CDs, computers, cameras. No more. There are quality products in the market that do not resort to these sorts of tactics.

There is a simple solution to this stop buying any music CD's from Sony BMG. I know I will not buy any and if the rest of did the same they would have to rethink this kind of action.

"The software is triggered, by playing Sony's music CDs on a PC" This is not entirely true, it should read "The software is triggered, by playing Sony's music CDs on a _Windows_ PC". The software has no effect on Linux, BSD, Solaris or any other operating system.

I have a solution to curb piracy: Sell CD's for less than 27$ CAD. Make it worth my while to go out and buy a CD. 10 bucks. At that price, they would still be making money, AND they would have mine too. Dont get me wrong though, I will still purchase CD's from smaller indie bands because I know they need the money... SONY DOES NOT!

I can debate on all the pros and cons of this issue but i won't finally the moral of the story is simply that ''you can't stop piracy''

i'm one of the few ppl that agree one should not illegally copy music . those ppl earn a living at what they do. all i wanted was to buy a cd i liked and listen to it and add it to my pc library i did not ask for my pc to continually crash due to some software i never consented to being put on my hard drive nor did i really want to go through the process of uninstalling the thing they put there. i e- mailed first4 internet about 6months ago and asked them to give me info on uninstalling that crap and i never heard a thing from them untill this all broke loose in the media i think its a sad way to treat a honest working customer and resst assured i wont be buying any more sony content protected cd's in the future