Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers

Uttles writes "According to Yahoo!, Celine Dion's latest CD will not play in computer drives. In fact: 'Should the consumer try to play Dion's CD on a PC or Macintosh, the computer likely will crash.' How is this legal?" Since Sony admits that their product is designed to cause damage to your computer system, almost anyone would likely have a good lawsuit against them. Attention Celine Dion and all musicians: crashing your fans' computers is not a good business practice. No matter what your agent says.

Comments

Celine Dion, eh?

[Roosey]

Are you sure it's the protection? I would say that the computers they tested it on had good taste, that's all. :)

Re:Celine Dion, eh?

[Salamander]

That can't be it. A computer with good taste would eject the disk immediately, without even thinking about playing it.

Re:Celine Dion, eh?

[JLouder]

I'm mostly into prog metal/heavy metal, but i love listening to Celine Dion. If that makes you think less of me, fine, but don't generalize too much

Yes, it actually does make me think less of you.

Re:Celine Dion, eh?

[Wakko Warner]

A computer with good taste would eject the disk immediately, without even thinking about playing it.


...hopefully, it would do so at a high enough rate of speed (and the proper trajectory) to knock some sense into the user.

- A.P.

Re:Celine Dion, eh?

[macshit]

Well, you never know.

Perhaps, as a child, he spent many happy hours in front of a TV with a broken flyback transformer.

So now he gets a warm nostalgic feeling whenever he hears a high-pitched whine...

Damn.

[sllort]

Your heart may go on, but your computer won't.

Crashing Computers

[nick_davison]

Crashing computers are nothing. Put Celine's CD in to your car while you're driving and it'll make you crash that too, just to end the god awful experience.
</all too obvious crashing joke>

Poor kernel hackers

[red5]

Now some poor kernel hackers will have to listen to this music so they can code a workaround for the linux kernel.
I feel there pain. Just rember this is for the greater good. :)

Sony Music vs. Sony Electronics

[PinchDuck]

Let me get this straight: If I go shell ~$1800 USDfor a Sony Vaio (like I did 3 weeks ago), then I shell out another ~$20 USD for the disc, it not only will not play in their own damned PC, but it will crash their own system?

That shit is fucked up. I wonder if they make any claims as to the stability of their systems.

Finally.....

[unixwin]

...I can convince a couple of my friends that even the computer agrees about her voice....

New Lyrics for the Warbling One

[The Cat]

Near... far... wherever you are...

I believe that the mouse won't move on...

Once more... you close the drive door...

rip, mix, and blue screen...

our prices go up and on...

Shhh!

[zenintrude]

I work for Sony, and this our only idea as to the killing off of Celine's career. How dare you warn her, have you heard the awful cd?!

Re:Shouldn't the CD's be cheaper, then?

[Sc00ter]

But it cost them so much to R&D this new copyprotection.. they need to make their money back on that! You want them to go hungry! :)

Re:What a bunch of crap

[Shiny Metal S.]

Is anyone using any critical thinking? How can a particular combination of bits on a CD crash your computer, much less "cause damage to your computer"?

I used to think exactly the same, until one CD proved me wrong.

Whats the big deal?

[CrasHUV]

Windows has been crashing my computers for years... so whats wrong with one Celine CD doing the same? At least they are telling you upfront. I have yet to find the label on Win98 that says the same.

Celeen Deeon != Musician

[TheTomcat]

Attention Celine Dion and all musicians

Kudos for not mistaking Céline Dion for a musician. (-:

S

Aibo, Vaio, Hello Kitty and Those Wacky Japanese

[BigBlockMopar]

Aibo, go fetch the vaio!
Let go! Bad dog! BAD DOG!

Stupid product and a computer with a stupid name.

You know, I just don't get it. Why would you want a synthetic dog?

There's something about the Japanese culture that I just don't get. Hello Kitty is a perfect example. Why do they like Hello Kitty?

How did they get the bow to stick to Hello Kitty's ear? I tried that on my own cat, but the taper of the ear as it reached the extremity wasn't conducive to holding a bow, much like pants will be self-adjusting on the rotund. Besides, she flicked away the bow then attempted to sever my femural artery. After I got back from the emergency room, I thought about using the staple gun, but Hello Kitty doesn't appear to have pierced ears. Unfortunately, I was out of hot-melt glue sticks, so I was unable to investigate that possibility.

Why do anime characters always have two teeth? (One on top going all the way around from molar to molar, and one on the bottom going all the way around from molar to molar.) Does Japanese toothpaste include spackle, or am I missing something? Why these one-piece monolithic teeth? The monolith is a fissure-free, gap-free symbol of strength. Which is ironic from a people who have been living in one of the world's most active seismic zone and yet persist in building paper houses with stone roofs.

[sigh] I long for the good old days, when the Japanese were quiet, reserved, and Sony built battle-wagon open-reel VTRs instead of CanCon pop music CDs.