Having recently settled various lawsuits over their use of invasive DRM in CD's, Sony has decided to try their luck with pushing more DRM into DVD's which has caused some recent issues in Sony's own DVD Players.
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"It doesn't seem believable. But the terrible publicity Sony is still getting following its efforts to foist dangerous (to PCs) rootkit spyware onto customers via music CDs doesn't seem to have dissuaded the company from trying it on again, this time DRM-ing movies. And it's apparently been going on since March at the least.
"In their zeal to make their DVD movies copyproof (yeah right) they have in fact made their latest releases unplayable on some DVD players, including my Sony DVP-CX995V DVD player," says Mick B on Just another WordPress.com weblog, quoted on slashdot.
He goes on that he recently rented Sony's Stranger than Fiction and The Holiday. both by Sony Pictures. Both load up to the splash title screen and then load no further, then after about 60 secs the player turns itself off!"
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I'm surprised that no one has chimed in on this yet... Betamax was better than VHS. So was V2000 for that matter. With the exception of the CD (joint venture with Phillips), Sony unfortunately has a fairly dismal record of promoting their proprietary media formats effectively.
Now here is the real ironic thing about Betamax and the current Sony DRM efforts. Anyone remember the Sony v. Universal City Studios, also known as the "Betamax case"? I guess becoming a media content mogul changes your perspective on intellectual property law.
I'm surprised that no one has chimed in on this yet... Betamax was better than VHS.
Better is a perception issue. The quality was better, but the limit on the amount of time you could record on a single cassette was less than VHS...
It's basically the same for all technologies... each one has their benefits and drawbacks. It's all a matter of what each user needs.
who would ever buy Sony these days? Their track record (no pun intended) is atrocious....
This seems to imply that Macs were perfectly safe, but there was a Mac version of the software on the disk as well, it just wasn't as invasive.
PC: I'm a PC
Mac: I'm a Mac
PC: And you're also a PC
Mac: Ah crap. *disappears in a puff of logic*
I now own a Minolta Digmage (sp) and LOVE it. Sony products? Not in our house. (by my calculations they have lost $3000 from our house alone since that issue... not to mention friends, family and co-workers that I tell this story too. Seems Sony doesnt understand the issue of "Word of Mouth".
They rented a copy from Blockbuster and then exchanged one that wouldn't work for another one that didn't work either. It played fine in the 24" iMac though (probably looked better too
and with this copy protection crap (sony movies wont even play in there own players, now thats sad!, lol) ... all it's doing is screwing over the end user and NOT the pirates! ... cause it aint hard to find "stuff" online nowadays and it's free from all the copy protection bs.
the only thing sony understands is "$" once you screw with this then they will listen. lol cause it's like jameswjrose said above he aint buying anymore sony products and if enough people do this, sony will get screwed over soon enough
*RING RING* *RING RING*
"Hello? Microsoft? Turns out you can stop piracy by making all your products unusable....... oh wait. No matter"
Before I get flamed I do use Vista.
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