R_Hatch opened this issue on Nov 20, 2005 ยท 19 posts
duanemoody posted Mon, 21 November 2005 at 1:29 AM
This can't be from 52 CDs!?! So there seems to be another source. Downloading Sony BMG tracks??? In point of fact, illegally downloading those tracks would guarantee you didn't get XCP. The DRM's on the physical media itself; as soon as someone subverts it and rips the tracks, the resulting tracks are clean. BION, the machines that got compromised were from people who received the CDs themselves, 98.99% of which were lawfully gotten. Even more ironic is the fact that the software Sony contracted for XCP appears to have cribbed code from a GPL source written by none other than DVD Jon. That's right, the man the MPAA tried to rape from abroad with the DMCA now has legal recourse against Sony -- using our own IP-obsessed legal system. I pray he goes for it and embarrasses everyone to the point that the mainstream media can't sweep this debacle under the rug any longer. The reason you're even reading this, here, is because network television is afraid to incriminate one of their own without the lawyers coming down on them. I bought a 1Gb thumbdrive this weekend on sale at Staples. I could have gotten a better price on the Sony product. There seemed to be more of them waiting on the shelves than you'd expect in a discount store. Do not piss off the nerds.