Sony BMG paid a company to create a copy protection solution for their audio CDs. The company created a solution that some people had severe issues with (and were unable to fix). Sony wants to recoup some of the loss of sales from the trouble this copy protection scheme caused from the people that created it.
Think of it this way. You are in the market for a file utility to protect your customer's data. You buy a solution from a company and you find out later that the solution you bought is causing all your customer's PCs to stop booting up. What do you do? Suck it up and pay out extreme amounts in customer support or go to the company that provided you the faulty solution? Sony is going to the company that made the copy protection.
Another way to think of it is: Blizzard contacts Starforce to put copy protection on their new Warcraft. Some people find out Starforce is causing their PCs to fail and crash. People get all pissed at Blizzard for crashing their system, when in fact it wasn't entirely their fault. (now replace Blizzard with Sony, Warcraft with Music, and Starforce with MediaMax)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
silverblackvoid @ Jul 13th 2007 3:19PM
maybe i'm a moron but i dont get it???
Andir3.0 @ Jul 13th 2007 5:37PM
Sony BMG paid a company to create a copy protection solution for their audio CDs. The company created a solution that some people had severe issues with (and were unable to fix). Sony wants to recoup some of the loss of sales from the trouble this copy protection scheme caused from the people that created it.
Think of it this way. You are in the market for a file utility to protect your customer's data. You buy a solution from a company and you find out later that the solution you bought is causing all your customer's PCs to stop booting up. What do you do? Suck it up and pay out extreme amounts in customer support or go to the company that provided you the faulty solution? Sony is going to the company that made the copy protection.
Another way to think of it is: Blizzard contacts Starforce to put copy protection on their new Warcraft. Some people find out Starforce is causing their PCs to fail and crash. People get all pissed at Blizzard for crashing their system, when in fact it wasn't entirely their fault.
(now replace Blizzard with Sony, Warcraft with Music, and Starforce with MediaMax)