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November 2, 2005
MPAA/RIAA: Truly Suckful
The two antitheses of Fair Use are at it again. It is crap like this that makes many of us (or me at least) want to pirate music or movies. The recording industry has no idea how big a hole they are digging for themselves. People who want to make sure artists are compensated justly for their work will eventually become fed up with a neverending string of new technologies that stifle our ability to use our own property. I'm all for revolting against our Musical Overlords.
I think this is the most important graf:
These laws aren't about piracy, and anyone who thinks they are needs to stop, look, and listen. Once the MPAA and pals have their way, you're going to pay through the nose for even the most basic of Fair Use rights. You're going to pay for the right to rewind and "re-experience" content. The Copy Prohibited Content class, complete with its asinine insta-delete feature is nothing but a back door into attacking what the content industry hates most: your ability to timeshift content. Yes, Jack Valenti said the VCR would destroy Hollywood, and while these moonbats no longer believe that, they do know that the rhetoric works.
Umm, yep.
Semi-related article here that I hope hurts profits for Sony. I'm so glad they have decided to start including deep-level spyware with their CD's, I don't get enough from Neopets.
Posted by TLorin at November 2, 2005 11:21 AM
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Ridiculous.
Posted by: gibb at November 3, 2005 2:54 PM
Well tlorin, you have me reading tech and science blogs now. Have been reading bout this Sony rootkit fiasco for 2 days now and also all the links pertaining to WOW and the cheating this provides a place to hide. I reallt think that with all the bad,bad,bad pub that Sony is getting world wide surrounding all this, they are in a world of crap.
I cannot believe that Presidents and CEO's of companies are stating "It doesn't matter what we do because average users have no idea what a rootkit is" Probably not an exact quote on my part but its close. This also seems to violate about 100 different laws in about 20 different countries so its not a USA only problem.
Also because all this programming seems to be written in "1/2 ass mode" it is ripe for exploitation by countless others with mayhem in mind. To view this as a minor error on the part of Sony,Microsoft(in some respects they seem to be in bed together on this one) and software developer First4 in Europe no one seems to want to admit they are looking out to make all the $$$ they can without any recourse to all the problems they have created for countless people and companies. The old saying "if its not broken don't fix it"...well in this case you cannot tell its broken unless you have a PHD in Comp Science. I say that since they broke it on purpose, Sony is now and probably forever on my banned list for companies i no longer do business with....and for that matter it seems that WOW and the stuff they install seems to be far worse since they load spyware right into their programs...thanks for the post Toby
Posted by: Saint7 at November 5, 2005 5:35 PM
Thomas Hesse president of Sony BMG's Global Digital Business division:
“Most people I think don't even know what a root kit is so why should they care about it”
Figured i would post the correct quote and this quote was given to the media
Posted by: Saint7 at November 5, 2005 5:49 PM
"Gee, maybe because you've sucked away 2% of my CPU usage even when your stupid program isn't running!"
Thanks for the followup. I picked out my last 4 'free' CD's from Sony/BMG and sent them a nastygram on why I was cancelling my account and would never do business with them again. If people decided they could sue Apple because their screens got scratched (on the Nano's), then most likely there is a case here. If nothing else but to cost Sony some kayle.
Posted by: TLorin at November 6, 2005 9:14 AM
For those of you that are playing along at home, the writers of the rootkit respond here
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/sonys-rootkit-first-4-internet.html
Posted by: gibb at November 7, 2005 2:48 PM
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