Sony's new CD "protection" scheme (read: crap)

[MustISO]

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When will they learn. I'd like to see a report about how much money is spent on CD protection schemes.

 

[Red]

It's great that they are simply giving more content to encourage the buyer to buy instead of restricting hackers.

 

[Spoooon]

Not too bad. Offering extra stuff is a pretty good idea.

 

[AmdInside]

It would be cool when audio CD's go away and are replaced by DVD Audio. Then they could also include special features like music videos, PC only content, or other media that can be played back on DVD. But knowing RIAA, they probably won't.

 

[FFactory0x]

Man. Copy protection takes what a day for someone to break

 

[blurredvision]

Eh, they gotta try something. They'll keep trying and trying till they succeed. And I can't say that I blame them. If I thought someone was basically stealing my money, I wouldn't sit idly by and let it happen.

 

[FFactory0x]

its will never stop. Someone will always find a way around the protection. It will get to a point where the protection will hinder the cd from playing on most cd players

 

[Vic]

Already broken. <edit>just prevent the CD from autoplaying</edit>

And they can never succeed at this short of making the CD's completely unplayable, because what can be played can be recorded and copied. If worst came to worst, people could just line-in a simple CD walkman into their sound cards, record to wav at 1x, and then re-encode to mp3.

And does anyone else find it ironic that Sony, a company that makes CD and DVD burners (and sells "media" PCs), is concerned about piracy? Does the right hand know what the left is doing?

 

[toekramp]

"We believe we can deliver more value by delivering more immediate content, an interactive experience, a better experience. Even if you could go to a (file-sharing) site and download a single song, you won't get the kind of content that we can deliver."

well at least they are being realistic about it..."All copy-protections can be hacked," Wiser said. "But if give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."

 

[notfred]

"All copy-protections can be hacked," Wiser said. "But if give people what they are asking for in terms of value, they won't go out and steal it. It's called trusting the consumer."

Wow, odd to hear a record company exec say something like that.