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Title: sony gets whooped
Post by: duffjr on November 12, 2005, 04:27:12 am
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=61614
Title: Re: sony gets whooped
Post by: patrickl on November 12, 2005, 11:21:51 am
There is an ongoing thread about this
Title: Re: sony gets whooped
Post by: Grasshopper on November 12, 2005, 11:29:53 am
Serves them right. I can't believe that a company as large as Sony can score such a spectacular PR own goal.

One record company (could have been Sony, I can't remember) has also tried releasing CDs with deliberate errors on them so they cannot be read (and therefore copied) using a PC's CD Drive. The only problem is that they also wouldn't work in many standalone CD players. Doh.
Title: Re: sony gets whooped
Post by: Harry Potter on November 12, 2005, 01:37:34 pm
One record company (could have been Sony, I can't remember) has also tried releasing CDs with deliberate errors on them so they cannot be read (and therefore copied) using a PC's CD Drive. The only problem is that they also wouldn't work in many standalone CD players. Doh.

http://www.cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_protections_cactus_data_shield.shtml

It was first trialled in the Czech republic in the year 2000-2001 and it's still in use by the looks of it.

It's more like Macro-vision on videos and DVDs so not really a virus and can't be compared to what Sony did.
Title: Re: sony gets whooped
Post by: duffjr on November 12, 2005, 04:32:21 pm
There is an ongoing thread about this

it said breaking.  how was i supposed to know?  what page is the thread on?  i'll hotlink.