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

[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."