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

Proventing Suicide

[polarkittycat]

I would try it to see if it actually does crash my computer.. but I would probably be forced to kill myself from listening to the music if it did play....

Are you sure sony isn't protecting suicide?

Re:Proventing Suicide

[Afrosheen]

I can see it now:

Everquest user commits suicide after playing way too long and listening to the new Celine Dion cd. Sources say the CD inserted into his computer during his EQ game subsequently crashed the user's computer, causing him to lose all will to live. Film at 11.

Re:Celine Dion, eh?

[jsprat]

Just so you know, Celine Dion is also revered by older women. Her demographics cross age barriers, just not the gender barrier ;)

Overrrated?

[NanoGator]

Every time I post something that gets a bunch of +1's, there's some jackass that comes along and marks it overrrated. Normally I wouldn't pay attention to it, except it has happened on every single popular post I've made in the last 2 weeks. Is there some git running around marking everybody down?

Since when is suggesting a new idea overrrated? At least show yourself and tell me why!

Note: Just to be clear, I'm not worried about Karma, it just feels like somebody's following me around and marking me down just for shits and giggles. It'd be nice to know that maybe they at least have a point to it.

Re:Please, learn how to read and write

[red5]

I'm on 4 hours sleep and more caffeine then should be legally allowed.

is sony collecting illegal royalties on media?

[andrejs]

Is sony part of the coalition that collects royalties on blank media specifically because people are utilizing fair use to make personal back up copies? sony should immediately be prohibited from collecting any blank media surcharges as a result.

Re:Celine Dion, eh?

[ArticulateArne]

I'll admit it, too, I'm a 22 year old male, programmer by trade, and I enjoy Celine. Especially on a good system, (like my friend's 5Kbuck setup), and her SACD sounds incredible. Say what you want about the lyrics, she has an awesome voice, and good engineers. My musical tastes vary widely, and she creates genuinely good music.

Sorry.

Re:I HAVE A GOOD PORK SANDWICH STORY YOU FUCKERS

[rixkix]

Like that was a lot better.

quite the crime spree

[celfie]

first her husband goes around raping women and now she is crashing computers - is this the new face of organized crime?