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Sony CDs anyone?
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Originally posted by zeitghost
Hopefully it will cost them and others a lot of money.I am not qualified to give the above advice!
The original point and click interface by
Smith and Wesson.
Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time -
I think the music industry is flogging a dead horse.
It only takes 1 person to plug their stero into the AUX port on their sound card. - Play - record - share.
Within days 1000's of people will be sharing those files..
If they took all the money they are wasting on chasing people and knocked it off the price of the CD's we would all be quids in !!Throw them to the lions - WC2 5.4Comment
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But the quality won't be the same will it, just like all those pirate DVD's filmed by some guy with a video in a cinema. The idea is that if you want the real thing you have to go through them.
As for that AUX port, I think they're doing their best to do away with that as well...with stuff like HDMI etc I believe the idea is each piece of equipment contains DRM/decryption etc to determine whether it can be viewed/connected/listened to.Comment
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"The aux port is analogue...How exactly can that be detected by drm?"
Re-read the sentence above beginning "But the quality won't be the same..."
The idea is nothing like vinyl which can "Easily defeated by a simple low pass filter...", the idea from what I've read is that each piece of electronic equipment in your house will only support a DRM connection if you want to hook it up to something else and you want the 'Full Monty'.
If you don't (unless someone hacks it), you might still have your AUX or combined stereo/analogue video port but thats about it...no 5.1/7.1/DTS, no SACD, no HD...Comment
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AtW,
I've been buying CD's for years
All the same ones.....
DatawritesThrow them to the lions - WC2 5.4Comment
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Sod 'em - I'm buying albums from Apple these days..."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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Buying albums from apple? Far too expensive. www.allofmp3 is the future, I generally pay about £1.50 for a legally downloaded album.
In terms of Sony, they have broken the Computer Misuse Act. It's whether anyone can be arsed suing them. read about it here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/
Then read this:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/commen...ippled_cd.html
This piece is hilarious. Basically Sony copy-protection means it will play through the proprietary player and won't let you copy to an ipod. Unfortunately, the copy protection doesn't work on a Mac so import into iTunes and burn away...
Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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