Actually, it kind of makes sense, from the standpoint of beta-testing software. You try it out on a limited audience, see what happens. Then you can try it on a larger group, or on everything, later. If there is a backlash, it is a limited one. Imagine the outcry if they'd tried that on a Madonna CD or something? I'm assuming they have someone like Madonna that would sell a kajillion CDs, but I don't know who it would be, because whoever they are, I hate their music.
I'm assuming here that it hasn't been going on for more than a year or so - I can't be arsed to look any of those albums up.
If, on the other hand they've been doing this for a long while, then I have no fucking clue.
I don't think it's been too long and I myself only have one of these CDs, but I don't have the problem with the shit software on there, since I don't use my computer to play CDs.
The backlash was pretty swift and immediate since the story broke and Sony is going to probably have both a massive recall and pay out the ass for this, as well as probably driving sales of their artists down because they are such untrustworthy scheming fuckers.
I would think, if they wanted to protect something, that it would be an album that would at least go gold...
Meh. There isn't much point, really, in this kind of copy protection. It doesn't stop people with proper CD dupers - those are the folks who are costing Sony money anyway, not people who copy the files - and it doesn't stop the people who are most likely to pirate something.
Being at home, I don't have all my security links, so I can't find the quote I saw, but the top guy for the Sony company, one of the parents of Sony-BMG, was saying like 6 years ago that Sony-BMG needs to go a different way with things than DRM.
So, a lot of this isn't clear to me, but SOMEONE has a clue, only noone is listening to him.
Mark is the guy who broke the story initially, and the stuff he talks about is interesting technically.
On the other hand, if it is a CD that everyone is going to buy anyway, who cares if a few people copy it? If it is a CD that isn't going to make a lot of $$, maybe they want to preserve the few $$ they'll get?
Well, they really did themselves, their artists and the entire RIAA no favors with this, because now not only will everyone be watching for it in the future on ALL new releases, regardless of the label, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a consumer backlash. As I said I only have one disc on the list I saw (Life Of Agony) and might still get the Neil Diamond disc, but where I was going to get it sooner, now I am kind of debating to see how this all shakes out. This was a dumb dumb dumb move on Sony's part.
Yeah, you know, the more I watch this unfold, the less it looks like a good decision. I still say they were beta-testing it. Either that or Sony just didn't know wtf was on the CDs. That's also possible, you know.
"So, we've created a new form of DRM, one that is basically undetectable, they won't even know what's causing it. There is no way they can disable it."
"Do it."
"Well, sir, there are some security consi..."
"Just do it."
"We'd like to spend a little more money testing and develop..."
"Do it now."
I dunno. I've seem corporations do stupid things before. You're right about how stupid this is. I should quit trying to make excuses for them.
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I'm assuming here that it hasn't been going on for more than a year or so - I can't be arsed to look any of those albums up.
If, on the other hand they've been doing this for a long while, then I have no fucking clue.
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The backlash was pretty swift and immediate since the story broke and Sony is going to probably have both a massive recall and pay out the ass for this, as well as probably driving sales of their artists down because they are such untrustworthy scheming fuckers.
I would think, if they wanted to protect something, that it would be an album that would at least go gold...
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Being at home, I don't have all my security links, so I can't find the quote I saw, but the top guy for the Sony company, one of the parents of Sony-BMG, was saying like 6 years ago that Sony-BMG needs to go a different way with things than DRM.
So, a lot of this isn't clear to me, but SOMEONE has a clue, only noone is listening to him.
Mark is the guy who broke the story initially, and the stuff he talks about is interesting technically.
On the other hand, if it is a CD that everyone is going to buy anyway, who cares if a few people copy it? If it is a CD that isn't going to make a lot of $$, maybe they want to preserve the few $$ they'll get?
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"So, we've created a new form of DRM, one that is basically undetectable, they won't even know what's causing it. There is no way they can disable it."
"Do it."
"Well, sir, there are some security consi..."
"Just do it."
"We'd like to spend a little more money testing and develop..."
"Do it now."
I dunno. I've seem corporations do stupid things before. You're right about how stupid this is. I should quit trying to make excuses for them.
Heh.
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