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How can they constantly change stuff around and expect firmware updates to solve it all. Here is a hint Sony, stick with the SPEC!]]>Apr 16th 2007 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/
I don't know why they even bother with DRM. AACS on high def media has been hacked to death already. Millions in R&D down the tubes. Show's over for DRM. Anyone who copies DVD movies knows that AnyDVD, DVDFabDecrypter, etc. can bypass whatever they come up with.

It's silly for them to continue to fight it. ]]>Apr 16th 2007 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/Apr 17th 2007 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/
Scenario: I'm a "legitimate" consumer, paying for my content. I buy a DRM "infected" disk that doesn't play on my system. I return it, costing the retail outlet profits. The replacement disk also gets returned--more lost profits. Disk number three confirms to me that it's not a manufacturing defect, and I hop online to find out what's up. One of the first three search hits sends me to a software solution that allows me to duplicate the disk, removing the DRM defects. Sony has now directly turned a paying customer into a pirate, forcing me to learn how to illegally copy disks in order to perform the previously legal function of simply playing the disk. Do they think I'm going to pay for the next disk now that they've taught me how to get it for free? Even if I'm willing and inclined to pay, I'm less likely to now simply out of spite! So they have provided both the means and an additional reason to pirate.

What can they possibly be thinking?]]>Apr 18th 2007 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/16/sony-copy-protection-taking-heat-again-now-dvds-wont-play/As always, DRM harms only the consumer and doesnt do squat to true pirates.]]>Apr 18th 2007 10:41PM