Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs

Gridle writes "In a complete reversal of their policy and on the heels of Avex's partial cessation of copy protected CDs (translation), Sony Music Entertainment in Japan has announced that it will abolish its Label Gate CCCD format (translation) beginning in November 2004 and move back to normal CD-audio format discs for all future releases. Reasons cited are music users' increased consciousness about copyrights and maintenance of legality (conformity to the CD-audio format specification). In related news, Sony also released a slightly updated HD walkman (translation) due to pressure from the iPod, but because of hardware limitations the device still does not support MP3 playback."

Comments

Re:Damn!

[spiralscratch]

Remember, you can still increase sound quality by running a green marker along the edge of the CD.

Have a blast!

Re:Rant / Rave

[jonwil]

Hardware wise, the PS2 is totally different to the PS1.
It does contain a PS1 CPU to act as the IO processor (I think) and the processor for PS1 games.

As for Sony Digital Cameras, I have a DSC-P32 and its good.

Re:Rant / Rave

[daniel23]

(_!_) This is your butt.
(_O_) This is your butt on goatse.cx.
Any questions?

This will probably earn me an offtopic mod or worse but looking at your sig I was reminded of a bit I saw on yahoo scox message board yesterday. Enjoy!

Utah secret code

Re:That's odd about the no MP3 playback.

[Jucius Maximus]

" What happened to their promise that all new portables would do MP3, and they'd have firmware updates for existing ones?"

Sony actually did announce a firmware to support MP3 in some existing players for early 2005. Slashdot just got it wrong, that's all. I wonder if they read their submission inbox these days, or have they completely switched over to posting paid slashvertisements?

2004-09-23 12:59:53 Sony Smartens Up: Music Players to Support MP3 (Index,Music) (pending)

Re:Time for something new

[Deliveranc3]

I've considered your post very carefully, having read it over several times. And I have one question to ask (especially the mods who found you "intersesting": What the FUCK are you talking about? (With all due respect)

My scathing reply was narrowly averted by your due respect subclause.

So I shall answer you with Due respect.... Stuff.

If you are not new to slashdot then you probably have all the facts you need to understand my post maybe just take some time to let it soak in.

Second this post is interesting, not enlightening (which is my most common modifier (Thank you slashdot mods!) so um, it's just information people didn't have organized in a useful way before. So um look up the individual facts (guestimates),and words? (dictionary.com) and you'll be enlightened too :)

Re:How can you say that?

[Beyond_GoodandEvil]

Wrong douche bag, If you are given illegal orders, and carry them out, you can't take the Eichmann defense of "I was only following orders." And as a commanding officer in Vietnam if you make a habit of shooting your subordinates when they refuse illegal orders, then you get fragged(aka killed by those same subordinates). And Kerry was an Officer not a grunt.