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Sony's New Nagging Copy Protection

Posted by Zonk on from the annoying-your-customers dept.

bort27 writes "You can put away your Sharpies, because Sony has launched a new CD copy protection scheme that is actually designed to be easily cracked: 'The copy-protection technology is...far from ironclad. Apple Macintosh users currently face no restrictions at all. What's more, if users go to a Web site to complain about the lack of iPod compatibility, Sony BMG will send them an email with a back door measure on how to work around the copy protection.'"

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  1. Lack of compatibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'll have to send them an email complaining about the lack of compatibility with my fav *nix based CD-Rippers, and see if they send me a back door ..

    -GenTimJS

  2. Let's just hope.... by Himring · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's hope they don't start making condoms....

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    1. Re:Let's just hope.... by dema · · Score: 2, Funny

      And if someone can't use them, they just email Sony and learn how to use the "backdoor" (:

    2. Re:Let's just hope.... by madaxe42 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No no, you've got it all wrong. They're assholes. The RIAA are dicks. We are all pussys.

      Assholes make DRM'd CDs so the dicks can fuck pussys, but what the assholes don't realise is that one day, that dick is going to turn right around and fuck an asshole. Also, the dicks haven't realised that pussys can't fuck assholes, nor can assholes fuck pussys - so all we need to do is get rid of the dicks, and have a happy world full of assholes and pussys!

    3. Re:Let's just hope.... by ModernGeek · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, but the worst part is that Sony will figure out that once the dick is gone, all it takes is one wipe the wrong way, and were all fucked with a serious infection.

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  3. Re:and in comes the internet by superpulpsicle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scientist: We have a new CD protection scheme

    Pirate: (Wink* Wink*) I'll buy you lunch if you show me how to hack it.

    Scientist: The backdoor info is already online.

    Pirate: Screw you then. (Punch scientist, run with CD)

  4. backdoor by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone know what the backdoor is? And no pictures of goatse please!

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    1. Re:backdoor by Steve_Jobs_HNIC · · Score: 5, Funny

      up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start.

  5. I'd like to complain! by SFEley · · Score: 2, Funny
    Dear Sony,

    Every time I try to listen to music, I find the industry is laden with idiots. They're preventing an obstacle to my listening enjoyment.

    Could you please send me an e-mail telling me how to get around them? Thank you.

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    ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine
  6. Re:Interesting... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    From a borderline paranoid schizo allow me to address this.

    Look at the bright side: you outnumber your ennemies 2 to 1.

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  7. Re:Interesting... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sony's new number one enemy: Little Timmy

  8. Re:Interesting... by merlin_jim · · Score: 3, Funny

    From a borderline paranoid schizo allow me to address this.

    Look at the bright side: you outnumber your ennemies 2 to 1.

    Yeah but I don't fully trust my ally. I sometimes wonder if he's a traitor.

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  9. Re:Interesting... by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny


    Yeah but I don't fully trust my ally. I sometimes wonder if he's a traitor.

    You know, he said the same thing about you...

    ^_^

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  10. Re:Interesting... by Retric · · Score: 3, Funny

    I still smell spin.

    RIAA: "We want copyright protection!"
    Development: "Hmm, this works on stupid people..."
    Marketing: "We can spin that!"

    And that's how we get a new useless product.

  11. Re:Speed bumps don't work by cpghost · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or you just go ask your "geek friend".

    Geeks have friends?

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  12. Re:Sony Assumes too Much by OglinTatas · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Do you feel the same way about security tags in shops?"

    "I would if I had to keep the tag on even after I've bought the item."

    You, sir, are a marketing genius!
    We are going to need venture capital to lobby congress to pass legislation to make it illegal to remove those tags.
    The consumer buys a dress and wears it once. If she attempts to wear it to another social event (which, I understand, is some kind of social faux pas--don't ask me I've worn the same suit for ten years.) the ink charge will explode and force her to buy a new dress.
    We can spin it as a _benefit_ to the consumer, saving her from the embarassment of going to two friends' weddings and being caught wearing the same dress.
    Let's patent this business method, and I will split the profits with you.

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  13. Parent is exactly why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...sex-starved geeks should not make sex analogies.