Well, that took about two weeks. While Sony is desperately trying to recover from the PR disaster, the geek world simply figures out a simple low-tech answer to corporate greed and ignorance.
I’m am not generally a starry eyed idealist, but it seems pretty obvious to me that Sony is spending all its time propping up a crumbling house. Wouldn’t it be easier to just roll with the punches? Become the first major label to openly embrace the idea that people own the music they buy. Come out and apologize for your earlier policies and pledge to release all music, both CD and MP3, with nary a whiff of content control. Hell, offer 1 track from each album of your catalog free for downloading. You will not lose a single existing customer and the sales spike you experiece should make the stockholders happy. Everyone wins. I don’t have to worry about infecting my computer and Sony gets a ton of new customers.
Sony BMG’s XCP bypassed with a bit of tape –
Sony BMG’s XCP copy-protection technology was already down, and now it’s getting the bugeebas kicked out of it. Gartner analysts revealed today that Sony’s XCP is “stymied by sticking a fingernail-size piece of opaque tape on the outer edge of the CD.” In other words, a bit of Scotch tape causes the PC to treat the disc as an ordinary music CD. Not that this really matters now what with Sony halting the production of XCP CDs and replacing them for free. Nor should this exploit be surprising — remember the shift-key or black-marker DRM workarounds? What’s important here is this: as Gartner rightly points out, the recording industry has yet to come up with a workable DRM solution in more than five-years of trying and will never do so as long as CDs must be playable on stand-alone CD players. Damn straight.
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