Sony resumes its DRM shenanigans

[unixronin]

It appears Sony has admitted to having a new DRM scheme in circulation on DVDs.  The new DRM scheme makes the discs unplayable in some players.  Including some brand-new Sony models like the DVP-CX995V.  The player, Sony says, will require a firmware update to play the new DRM-protected discs.  However, the firmware update is not yet available.  And, now that we mention it, Sony doesn't know when it will be available.

Despite these problems, Sony "does not intend to change the copy protection."

Well, I think I "do not intend" to buy any Sony DVDs in the foreseeable future.  How about you?

Comments

[nephthys510.livejournal.com]

There's a term for this... hmm....

oh yeah

cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Idiots.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I prefer to think of it as "another sign of the Hollywood entertainment Old Guard circling the drain".

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I prefer to decline to support the business of those that, presumptively, call me a thief.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

I note for the record that Metropolis Records is not a member of the RIAA.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

It's been going on for a while now. "Da Vinci Code" has a variant that does cause problems. Of course all the ones Sony currently has copy protected are available for download. Even these uber sekure ones.

Back in the C64 days I know people that had custom hardware to read a floppy and perfectly duplicate it up to and including the laser burn spot. They also had custom VCR hardware that would directly copy raw data to another tape.

DRM has always been a joke and always will be. The only way they can slow it down is to control the entire event and that is a secured movie theater.
I can see where they'd guarantee the theater chains 0 non theater releases for X decades, years, etc.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Some years back, I read an interesting and revealing interview with a professional music pirate in eastern Europe. I particularly remember the closing comment he summed up with. It went something like this:

"The music industry cannot develop a copy-protection scheme that I or someone like me can't defeat in a tenth of the time, for less than a thousandth of the cost. There's exactly one thing the record companies can do that would put me out of business, and that's to start charging a fair price for CDs. But they'll never ever do it."

[danjite.livejournal.com]

I have about 20 dvds total and am not looking to expand that number- now I only want to download, so as to remove the physical trash component from the process.