Sony malware and root files and such

[mousapelli]

Sony amuses me, rather than outrages me as it probably should, because they've hit upon the one way to ensure that I never buy a CD of theirs legally ever again.

but then again, i can laugh because I have a mac. *cuddles the ibook*

I mean really, at what meeting did they decide that people smart enough to burn homemade DVDs weren't going to figure out random shit they didn't install was breaking their computers? I know kind of like nothing about DRM, but i know i'm not putting a Sony cd in my car stereo if there's even the tiniest chance that it wouldn't be able to play burned cds afterwards.

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[blitzava.livejournal.com]

A fellow mac user *bows from the chair in front of her emac* and I have my two ibooks with me...one on each side ^^ an older mac upstairs and me daddy has a powerbook

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this DRM stuff sucks. I've been a consumer advocate in this area. Trouble is they pretty much pioneered it with iTunes, and all the processor manufacturers (AMD starting in 2006) have hardware based DRM in their CPUs. Now that they're using Intel chips, they claim they're taking out the DRM part, but this Slashdot commenter (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158052&cid=13239204) has evidence to the contrary.

I don't think it would damage a car stereo though because they don't usually have flash chips or harddrives, but it could affect a car MP3 player.

Now to spread the word about the government trying to ban television recording: broadcast flag (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/11/1211240&tid=129&tid=17) I called my Congressman on that one last time.

[yabamena]

Though I learned my baby steps on Macs in grade school, I'd never use one unless absolutely under durress, ie. work or school. That being said, Sony has just pretty much ensured that I never buy a CD from them again. I just got a sweet piece of heaven PC and ain't no way I'm going to risk messing it up because they want to keep ripping off consumers.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

see, the itunes stuff doesn't bother me, because it's reasonably broad. I could put it on three different computers and a bunch of different devices, and while there is a burn limit for full albums, there isn't one for just dropping it on a playlist and burning it.

and also, it doesn't, you know, DO anything to my computer. And if you were hardcore, the protection strips off pretty easy if you just convert it to mp3.

I've never been asked for a password for anything I've been moving around.

[fantomeq.livejournal.com]

If you send an .m4a to someone who doesn't have iTunes though, it looks for an ownership certificate and connects to the Apple server. I don't know how that works with swapping if you do have iTunes. But once I found out you can convert to .mp3, I was a lot more fond of them. Glad they did that. Trouble is, once we find out if the new Intel chips in Macs do have the DRM, that will be over too. :(