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sony drm
salada:
boing boing is doing quite a good job of tracking sony's descent into DRM madness.
Mnementh:
I love how their EULA is saying that if you declare bankruptcy you're legally obligated to delete all your sony music...
Kthak:
--- Quote from: jhocking ---Seriously? For a game with the word "online" in its title that is hella shitty.
--- End quote ---
Essentially it means don't sell your game to someone else unless the GC goes with it. Oh, and don't let your Cube break... then you're screwed.
Crap, I think I'm still paying the monthly for that game too... Haven't played in a year.
ramenXnoodles:
I think from now on, if a band is on Sony I will download their CD if I want it.
Too bad no good bands are on Sony.
est:
there is a lot of hype and hyperbole running around regarding Sony's latest exploits. seriously though, it seems to be just one PR nightmare after another for them lately doesn't it?
the rootkit fiasco and the way they have handled it hasn't done them any favours. i am not sure how they have reacted to the news that Australians can now legally chip their units to get around region encoding either. the PS2 High Court decision would probably hold over to the PS3, so i am pretty sure that if they tried to implement the blu-ray locking technologies we'd have legal modchips in about two seconds.
i really hope that they try something like it, actually. i would like to see how the current PS2 modchip precedent will affect future modchip litigation in regards to restrictive DRM practices, and whether Sony will get the hint or not (although i am guessing "not").
i see Sony acting from a position of arrogance. they are effectively saying "if you want to use our products, you will use them in this fashion". obviously this is no way to run a business, and i can see this rootkit fiasco plus the hype surrounding the xbox360 and the Revolution, plus the earlier xbox360 ship date possibly contributing to the PS3 losing its top spot in the console market.
unless this information is actually true, and people within Sony (and the artists they represent) are starting to get their message through to the thick-heads at the top of the management chain.
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