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Sony Pulls Controversial Anti-Piracy Software

Posted by Zonk on from the must-have-gotten-tired-of-thrown-eggs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bowing to public outrage, Sony BMG has temporarily halted the use of its controversial anti-piracy software in all of its music CDs, the company said in a statement today. The move comes just a day after a top Bush administration official chided Sony and the entertainment industry for going too far: according to this story over at Washingtonpost.com, Stewart Baker, the Department of Homeland Security's policy czar warned would-be DRM makers: 'It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.' The Post has the full text and video of his commentary." We've reported on this story previously.

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  1. do we forgive sony now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I sure don't.

  2. Quote by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To quote a good song by a good band, Dope: DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE!

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
  3. maybe they could compare to Debian Hurd, also by rcamans · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Debian Hurd / Mach microkernel, Gnu, not Linux, would have been interesting.
    or Solaris
    Would they mind giving us their benchmark software so we could do it?
    and a copy of singularity?

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