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OmegaDaemon	Date: November 26, 2002 @ 1:59 PM www.sony.com )(duh!) and take a look at all the nice shiny graphics and suped up words and a list of all the big companies that are in on this...... well..... there are two different types of memory sticks, the purple or the white.....how convenient. The purple one, does not allow downloading of copy-protected media. The white allows d/ling of copy-protected media........ Here's the catch.... these sticks (white ones) have ID tags "for your security": "MagicGate Memory Stick media and OpenMG™ technology provide a solution for sharing copy-protected music that respects the rights of artists and content holders." Bad bodings..... tracking of music and all other copy-protected media.....and where is the main hub that all this goes to... the PC. And from the PC to the net, and vice-versa... all being 'tracked' with personal memory stick 'tags'....... is this the future collar on our necks? " id="26995">Well, now that sony is blasting television with the memory stick commercials it's about time we discussed what this means to the world of free music. The best thing to do is go to the sony site ( www.sony.com )(duh!) and take a look at all the nice shiny graphics and suped up words and a list of all the big companies that are in on this...... well..... there are two different types of memory sticks, the purple or the white.....how convenient. The purple one, does not allow downloading of copy-protected media. The white allows d/ling of copy-protected media........ Here's the catch.... these sticks (white ones) have ID tags "for your security": "MagicGate Memory Stick media and OpenMG™ technology provide a solution for sharing copy-protected music that respects the rights of artists and content holders." Bad bodings..... tracking of music and all other copy-protected media.....and where is the main hub that all this goes to... the PC. And from the PC to the net, and vice-versa... all being 'tracked' with personal memory stick 'tags'....... is this the future collar on our necks?
Expose	Date: November 26, 2002 @ 2:24 PM zpantispy may be a help. Tools any windows xp user should have. Wheather it is the encoder, the OS going online secretly, the program that transfers music to it going online secretly, or the encoder, we must see what is telling the stick that it is copy-protected music, and put an end to it. Sony is slowly turning into Microsoft, i don't like what I see :skeptical: " id="26997">Sony sux. Thanks for the info, never knew that. Rio and iRiver are the best yet; and they don't have any of this crap on their products. Adults will know better. Just try to tell others, everyone you see that tries to buy this to get something else and to wake up and smell the copyright! There will be ways around this. Does this work with macs? Does it work with linux? How does it know if it is copyrighted or not? Whatever helps it know if it is or not is what will help us figure out a way around it. If it has anything to do with DRM and the like, spybot(forgot link) and zpantispy may be a help. Tools any windows xp user should have. Wheather it is the encoder, the OS going online secretly, the program that transfers music to it going online secretly, or the encoder, we must see what is telling the stick that it is copy-protected music, and put an end to it. Sony is slowly turning into Microsoft, i don't like what I see
princess-angry	Date: November 26, 2002 @ 4:43 PM I wish that sony would not do that. I think SDMI would be a better system. It does less stuff behind your back then the others. I would use it if I had to have copy pretection in my products (which I would'nt) ;p
Expose	Date: November 26, 2002 @ 5:15 PM Don't you support copy protection, youu like WMP? They are going to stick this crap into WMP soon. They already have a global unique id for each player, so they can trace back the computer using that. I would never buy a sony product again knowing that they support this, why feed them?
mcarp555	Date: November 26, 2002 @ 5:46 PM
fIXjACK	Date: January 24, 2003 @ 2:22 AM Sony is worse than Microsoft, they are one of the big shit pimps of fuck who rules the music world. I promise, they are the richest dirtbags backing the DMCA and the RIAA..
jdoubleg	Date: January 27, 2003 @ 8:23 PM On a brighter note... big shit pimps of fuck is one of the more brilliant phrases I have ever heard.
mtbatol	Date: January 27, 2003 @ 11:12 PM I can tell you from personal experience that this sux doggie ballz. My first mp3 player (technically not a mp3 player since it uses ATRAC3 codec) was the first sony ministick walkman (the pretty blue one). Gladfully I was able to sell it on ubid when I realized how crappy it was. You had to convert all your mp3 & wma files into their damn format so you can download stuff on there. And sometimes you would have to do it all over again and delete the bad files!!! Then you could only transfer songs back & forth from pc a certain amount of times before... meeeeh i forgot how it went exactly because it was so damn stupid!!! I vowed from that moment on to not buy a sony music player again. -_-

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