Sony Copy Protected CDs - Too Far

PISSED does not begin to describe my state of mind right now! I always KNEW Sony was too big for their britches, but GEEZ! BS, man... BS! I probably could have expressed myself better without the profanities, but here is the message I left for them: It's called LiNUX, you *******. Keep your piece of **** Windows anti-hacking bull**** application stored safely in your *****! I will NOT continue to buy your CD's, and your application will not inconvenience me one bit, AND the rest of the world, really bent on sharing (or "stealing", as you so conveniently describe it) "your" music will be forced into alternate operating systems. You are only killing yourselves, and helping take Micro$oft with you... Actually, keep right on doing what you are doing - those bastards need a good *** reaming as well! Yeah, Dave's pissed about it too, but as my message above states, not terribly inconvenienced by it. LiNUX LOVES Windows-based anti-ANYTHING Oh, and being not afraid of the Sony juggernaut, I gave them my REAL e-mail address as well!It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."

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Wow. What bulls**t!! It just goes to show that this country is being run by big business. If the american public let Sony get away with this, who knows whats next. The way things are going, between big business and the goverment, it wont be very long before the american people have no privacy at all, even in our own homes. Not that we have much now anyways.

Just remember what ever copywrite protection is out there, or will be out there in the future.. there will always be people who will be able to bypass it with ease

I wouldnt let this get to you all so much, its going to be exactlly like limited/pay-per-view DVDs , the'll fade away after a few years.Just  a random thought--Skold

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skoldspuppy wrote: Just remember what ever copywrite protection is out there, or will be out there in the future.. there will always be people who will be able to bypass it with ease I wouldnt let this get to you all so much, its going to be exactlly like limited/pay-per-view DVDs , the'll fade away after a few years.

I dunno man I think the trend.. as so many ppl here seem to see as well.. toward total ... say... 'remote' ownership. Like... the idea being to steadily move toward a system of content distribution.... from music to video games to freakin spreadsheet software.... where all the content is *served* to you... for a monthly fee to the content owner. Its the same thing as pharmaceutical companies having no vested interest in actually *curing* disease. The money stops. The idea is you "live with it" .... lifetime payments. The really scary thing with companies as massive as Sony is that not only does the company produce the media they are trying to protect, the they are indeed an industry leader in the very industry that makes the hardware that plays the media in the first place! This places the company in a fairly unique position (outside of Mitsubishi I can't think of another company with so many tentacles) to seriously protect and control content... forget not how many other companies out there have a vested interest and are pushing other, if perhaps less scary standards of DRM... the whole 'trusted computer' thing coming out of Microsoft a few years ago gave me nightmares. I don't think these trends are going to fade like DivX... which... in all reality, was a really half-baked idea anyway in the coming face of broadband delivery... Circuit City really isn't run very well... trust me... I have 100 friends that worked in the home office not across the street from my apartment. The place is run by half-blind monkeys I swear. ....eh... honestly? Sony is run by smart, smart capitalists."I'm finished!" - Daniel Plainview