And thank you Napster, et al, for bringing us to this juncture.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Sony blows anyway.And thank you Napster, et al, for bringing us to this juncture.
sure. blame the bullet for being fired by the gun.
To use your analogy, I'm not blaming the bullet, but the evil gang who distributed arms to it's followers and started shooting law-abiding people in the face.
Ultimately, it's those of us who abide by the law who pay for the damage done by criminals. This is a case-in-point.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
I can understand companies wanting to protect their music from being copied.
But to actually incapacitate someone's computer to the point where it needs to be sent in to the shop, just by trying to PLAY IT using a regular CD player in the PC, is going WAY too far.
I smell a lawsuit on its way.
Especially since courts have already held that consumers can legitimately copy music they've acquired legally.
Even with a warning, damaging one's computer is not cool.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
But I'm too lazy 
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Nobody really understood why Bloodsage wrote:
You'd also have to use one of their CDs and damage your computer. You usually can't sue someone unless you've actually suffered damage.
what about the psicological damage it caused?
I was shocked and dismayed to find that this was INTENTIONAL, due to the cd recording protection on the CD I put into the drive. I did not attempt to record, did not attempt to do anything BUT play the CD as I would in any other standard CD player."
Personally, I think that would be a winning case. Sony would probably settle out of court, though 
I don't own a personal CD player, because.. you know.. I have this thing called a computer, and it plays CD's fine. I don't want to have to go buy a CD player just to listen to the Episode II soundtrack.
This = bullshit
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Mortious thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
What the hell?!I don't own a personal CD player, because.. you know.. I have this thing called a computer, and it plays CD's fine. I don't want to have to go buy a CD player just to listen to the Episode II soundtrack.
This = bullshit
As for the copy protection, I give it between two and three weeks before it's cracked by six different independent programmers. That is, of course, if it wasn't already cracked three weeks before it's relese like WinXP was 
Don't they know about the emergency paperclip-hole release button?
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Maradön? said:
And why the hell couldn't they remove the CD from the iCrap?Don't they know about the emergency paperclip-hole release button?
Maybe they included an autoplay virus on the CD that makes the entire computer unusable.. which, obviously, would be highly illegal. The makers of the CDs are going to lose their pants, their shirts, and most of their underwear from the lawsuits.
