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Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers

Posted by michael on from the new-day-has-come dept.

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.

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  1. What geek would ever... by lhbtubajon · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...play Celine Dion? Seriously?

  2. Re:Celine Dion, eh? by jonnythan · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm a 20 year old male studying engineering.

    I have ~ 15 gigs of mp3's (perhaps 3 gigs are ripped from cd's that I own).

    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 ;)

  3. Re:Poor kernel hackers by CyberKnet · · Score: 1, Troll


    I would argue that unless a (real) music artist uses this format then it would actually be for the far lesser audience... =P

    (case in point, how many teenage female titanicites/older gay men/older love-lonely women do you know use linux? There's the Celine Dion marketshare right there)

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    Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - Ovidius
  4. Re:warnings get sony off the hook? by azosx · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't see how discriminating against homosexuals has anything to do with Sony trying to protect it's property from digital music pirates. One must realize, not until that past few years has the computer become a "digital hub". Before, people used to play their CDs the good old fashion way, in their home or car stereo. Since that was what audio CDs were originally designed to do, Sony really isn't taking anything away from the consumer. If it states all over the CD and case that it will not work on a PC or Mac then I guess it's not much different than that sticker on your car that says "Unleaded Gasoline Only". If you're stupid enough to put diesel fuel in, don't go crying about how your car wont start.

  5. Re:Celine Dion, eh? by hymie3 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Morality has no place in America. We are a capitalist society.

    Rather, since we are a capitalistic society, he who has the money dictates the morales. Those with the money, the corporations, have morals; its just that those morals don't really care about joe sixpack (aside from viewing him as a natural resource).