Sony being evil

[Nystul]

It's such a fundamental thing that it is impossible to make a CD that a legacy player can read and play, and yet the CD is actually copy-protected. What, no matter how perfect the encryption is, the absolute most you need is an old CD player with a digital out and a sound card with a digital in? Surely Sony knows this. And they can only go so far in making CDs that won't play on CD players. :rolleyes: Which means they are relying on people being ignorant for their copy-protection scheme to work. I have a feeling that the people who manage to bootleg these albums onto the P2P networks before the album is even released don't fall into that category of being hindered by a stupid pet trick. All it takes is one person to successfully rip a file without DRM riders and the whole world has it.

Sorry if this is incoherent. Copy protection doesn't bug me until it starts to do something like making the CD/CD-Rom unplayable with my desired choice of equipment, causing distortion, or installing unwanted crap on my computer. Unfortunately, copy protection seems to be much more effective at doing these types of things than it is at actually protecting files from being copied.

Although for what it's worth, I buy most of my music through BMG music club (Sony) and don't recall getting anything yet that has been copy-protected. My last CD does have a cute little FBI shield on the back of the jewel case, if that qualifies. :P