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  Stoned4Life, 14 Nov 2005 @ 5:28pm

  
  

  Copy Protection

  Copy protection is so overrated. Come on? So Sony is going to launch this massive copyright protection initiative. Well, guess what? We'll just buy our music from someone else... or, do what we've already been doing and continue to download it online!!!
  
  Holy crap? Who has been buying these CD's? Not the people who download music! No, the Software is only hurting the already good-samaritan market while the people who have been illegally downloading music are ACTUALLY better off right now.

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    zazie, 14 Nov 2005 @ 5:43pm

    
    

    Re: Copy Protection

    I think my brain is going to explode. I didn't think this SonyBMG Situation could get any dumber... apparantly I stand corrected. It's like watching someone voluntarily throw themselves down a flight of stairs over and over and over!

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      xan_user, 14 Nov 2005 @ 10:36pm

      
      

      Re: Copy Protection

      Sony is a drunk guy falling down the up escalator.

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    Mike, 14 Nov 2005 @ 5:57pm

    
    

    Re: Copy Protection

    P2P and Torrents all they way. You get it when you want it and at your own price. If all else fails, its not worth it, as you can see with the situation unfolding. My fired is one of these, "I love my bands so much I HAVE to own the ORIGINAL CD's, then rip them to an MP3 Cd or to a flah drive player." Well look at him now, the "true" fans are getting it good now aren't they, good job Sony BMG!
    
    -Mike

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      Mike, 14 Nov 2005 @ 5:59pm

      
      

      Re: Copy Protection

      friend instead of fired

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        macbeach, 14 Nov 2005 @ 8:18pm

        
        

        Re: Copy Protection

        " 'Friend' instead of 'fired' "
        
        I totally missread this, leading to insite. I thought you were suggesting what should be done to the Sony exec who came up with this boneheaded idea. Only I thought you said:
        
        "Fried instead of fired."
        
        Yeah, I think that would make perfect sense. (I bet his bosses at Sony will soon think so too.)

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          Anonymous Coward, 14 Nov 2005 @ 8:58pm

          
          

          Re: Copy Protection

          People seem to be talking about Sony going to court over this...but when has any company gone to court for security buggy software? MS anyone?

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  jdw242, 14 Nov 2005 @ 6:59pm

  
  

  options

  isn't there a thing called a live cd?
  don't the live cds let one play and or rip a music cd?
  
  If not, why not?
  
  If so, what's the deal? Many people have external USB drives; the live cds surely support such devices as storage... right?
  
  Throw me a bone here; I'm the 'buy to own' type of music buyer, and I'll keep copies of my discs on my laptop, thank you very much.

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    jdw242, 14 Nov 2005 @ 7:02pm

    
    

    Re: options

    yes, this does assume one has TWO cd-drives...
    
    thanks JS

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      shadesofsteve, 14 Nov 2005 @ 7:12pm

      
      

      Re: options

      Should give Slax a try. Live CD of slackware, can boot to RAM if you have at least 512megs i believe. frees up the optical drive. one of the versions is already set with win32codecs and good to go.

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      crystal_tech, 15 Nov 2005 @ 7:32am

      
      

      Re: options

      not true look at your cheat codes for slax.

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  Shades of Steve, 14 Nov 2005 @ 7:10pm

  
  

  Live CD

  Try slax. As long as you have a decent about of RAM you can boot to ram and free your optical drive if you only have one

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  Murphy, 15 Nov 2005 @ 1:49am

  
  

  No Subject Given

  I love google: How to Protect Yourself from Sony's Rootkit.

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    Bob3000, 15 Nov 2005 @ 4:29am

    
    

    Re: No Subject Given

    Nice find!

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  thecaptain, 15 Nov 2005 @ 5:29am

  
  

  To Sony

  This is the way I see it, and I hope some Sony PR droids are surfing the net "gauging" public response and option:
  
  I haven't downloaded songs in years, although I remember Napster vividly in its heighday. I did download tho, I don't feel guilty because I still bought CDs. Lately, I've just bought CDs.
  
  Well guess what Sony, screw buying CDs now, I'm going back to downloading...I'm not taking the chance that you'll screw my machine over again.
  
  You wanted to control piracy? Well guess what, you controlled me right back into P2P and I'll enjoy doing it, the freedome of it, the lack of worries that you'll screw up my system and the total JOY that morons like yourselves WON'T get my money!

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  nonya bidness, 15 Nov 2005 @ 6:42am

  
  

  MP3's Suck

  All this lame crap to play compressed shitty versions of music, on a crappy little computer sound system. CD audio on PC sound systems suck, period.
  Mp3's on PC sound system suck more...
  My CD player cost more than my PC and nothing can be installed into it, and I can record from that if I need to. If I can not play a cd in my player, I don't want it. Low end music appreciation is causing more low end troubles for low end music systems.

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    Riv, 15 Nov 2005 @ 7:42am

    
    

    Re: MP3's Suck

    Nonya, let me guess: you hate it when music you like goes mainstream and you touch yourself when listening to your cd player. For the 99% of the population that aren't music snobs, mp3s usually do the job just fine, so get off your high horse and STFU.

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      nonya bidness, 15 Nov 2005 @ 8:02am

      
      

      Re: MP3's Suck

      Hey Riv
      I like the music I like, mainstream or not. It's none of your bidness if I touch myself, keep me out of your fantasies. I am not a music snob, I just have higher standards than YOU, and don't mind paying for quality. Besides, it's more like 60% mp3 vs 40% high quality, dont make it seem like you are such a majority with your LOW standards. Get off your high horse,you don't know me, you MP3 lovin,low quality,not paying for music,tone deaf snob.
      
      love
      nunya

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        Happy user, 15 Nov 2005 @ 10:11am

        
        

        Re: MP3's Suck

        It seems to me that many many many people enjoy the mp3 format -- this very well explains why Sony would create such a horrible tool that attempts to make it difficult for the music listener to place their purchased (or "leased") music to any STANDARD PORTABLE device other than their outdated cd-player.

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  adnanaliyi10, 31 Aug 2013 @ 3:32pm

  
  

  english

  afanormo

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