More bad news about that Sony rootkit

Nov 12, 2005 25 Replies

Nope. One person somewhere will do it once and digitize the result. That copy will then circulate without the copy protection.

I've never been interested in computer games so never investigated the how but the what has been obvious for a long time. There are some pretty smart kids out there who aren't too busy earning a living. Even back in the days when the Commodore 64 was the state of the art, the neighborhood kids had cracked copies of the latest games before the local stores.

Note that they did not succeed. Corporate greed forces them to continue to try but they will change or die. Look what is happening in the music business. Name CD's selling for $20 and up while the artists get little or nothing. More and more are burning and selling their own work. There is even at least one outfit that commits to handing over 50% of _gross_ sales to the artist(s) and are selling alblums at less than half what the biggies charge.

Like that big green fellow said, "Change is good, Donkey."

Ted

As long as you are 'authorized'. This isn't the exact article I was thinking of, though it's similar:

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but I recall reading that the MPAA and/or RIAA want to restrict use of analog-to-digital converters in consumer equipment. It seems like an article from The Onion, but it was real. Here's something on it, this story is older than I thought:
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They are *so* clueless it's precious.

I suppose they want to 'knobble' computer soundcards next ?

Graham

Ahem. Sound Blaster Audigy.

RwP

Probably. At least define a path in the D to A direction where the card itself does descrambling, leaving software with no way to touch the decoded bits. The other way around is probably also on the agenda.

"People must get used to pay for content, the era of free content is over" is something I hear more and more from content collectors/sellers (should we call them pirates?)

Thomas

I guess I must be the weird one, or maybe it's just the luck of the draw that I now live in LA county, but whenever I feel a hankering to hear music, I just turn on the radio.

I hope "they" don't intend to take *that* away! =:-O

Thanks, Rich

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