news.com.com— A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a settlement in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anticopying software the company had embedded in some music CDs.
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Personally I'm tired of sony. the whole root kit ordeal was the last straw for me. i will do my best not to buy any sony product in the future. Will that make a difference to sony? Probably not, but at least i won't have to worry about my computer being compromised or my home theater system s**tting the bed on me anymore.
I stay away from copy protectted cds... here's a good list to start Fat Chuck's site is down:<a class="user" href="http://www.boycott-riaa.com/corrupt_cds">http://www.boycott-riaa.com/corrupt_cds</a>I noticed Amazon is starting to state if the CD is copy protected or not.Protected CDs are a pain, if they don't work, your basically stuck with it, because the store will notrefund your money, and if the protection on the CD is the issue it is no good to get an exchange.So for you Windows users, make sure your auto-play option is OFF! This will help prevent anyprotection from automatically loading into your PC as soon as you insert the disk. Music companies are just plain ignorant by placing this crap on CDs. If someone wants to copythe cd they are going to do it, nothing will stop them. If they have to worry about protecting Spear Britney, believe me they don't have to worry about that, the content of the album willprotect itself with nobody bothering to buy it.RIAA and Music Companies have to realize : Bad Music = Bad Sales
Im going for option A:"$7.50 + one free album download "But now what about when my DVD burner stopped working in the computer that got infected with the rootkit and would only work on my super-slow older computer that would only limit me to 2x write speeds and a majority of the time the DVD burns turned out to be junk all because a rootkit affected my DVD burner drive?Then after several months of frustration I decide to format my main computer and have to loose several hours having to reinstall software and configuring the software all over again instead of being able to enjoy my weekend or making extra money working some overtime?Then to finally sit back and enjoy a few songs on my computer to finally realize exactly what caused all the trouble in the first place and then start the process all over again. Then a few months later find out Sony purposly put this software onto their CD's. Minimum wage X ~30 hours = AorNormal salary X ~30 hours = BorOvertime pay X ~30 hours = CorTime off not being stressed out fixing a computer all over a @#$*(#$ SONY disc! = DSony owes more than a lousy damn $7.50, how about A + B + C + D and then a PS3 and a baseball bat for anger management!!!
hubrisMay 23, 2006
Bad Sony - Bad!nnMy cat receives worse punishments when it breaks things. Hopefully the other pending lawsuits have better success.
hazmat007May 23, 2006
Personally I'm tired of sony. the whole root kit ordeal was the last straw for me. i will do my best not to buy any sony product in the future. Will that make a difference to sony? Probably not, but at least i won't have to worry about my computer being compromised or my home theater system s**tting the bed on me anymore.
astrotrainMay 23, 2006
I stay away from copy protectted cds... here's a good list to start Fat Chuck's site is down:<a class="user" href="http://www.boycott-riaa.com/corrupt_cds">http://www.boycott-riaa.com/corrupt_cds</a>I noticed Amazon is starting to state if the CD is copy protected or not.Protected CDs are a pain, if they don't work, your basically stuck with it, because the store will notrefund your money, and if the protection on the CD is the issue it is no good to get an exchange.So for you Windows users, make sure your auto-play option is OFF! This will help prevent anyprotection from automatically loading into your PC as soon as you insert the disk. Music companies are just plain ignorant by placing this crap on CDs. If someone wants to copythe cd they are going to do it, nothing will stop them. If they have to worry about protecting Spear Britney, believe me they don't have to worry about that, the content of the album willprotect itself with nobody bothering to buy it.RIAA and Music Companies have to realize : Bad Music = Bad Sales
llbblMay 23, 2006
BOYCOTT EVERYTING SONY INCLUDING THE PS3
mirunitMay 23, 2006
wow im gonna mark your submit as spam, why do you have to invade every discussion with your submit links?
compu73rg33kMay 23, 2006
Sony fscks their harddrives?
ajb2015May 23, 2006
Imagine what kind a punishment your everyday hacker would have got for such an offense.
kuallaMay 24, 2006
Im going for option A:"$7.50 + one free album download "But now what about when my DVD burner stopped working in the computer that got infected with the rootkit and would only work on my super-slow older computer that would only limit me to 2x write speeds and a majority of the time the DVD burns turned out to be junk all because a rootkit affected my DVD burner drive?Then after several months of frustration I decide to format my main computer and have to loose several hours having to reinstall software and configuring the software all over again instead of being able to enjoy my weekend or making extra money working some overtime?Then to finally sit back and enjoy a few songs on my computer to finally realize exactly what caused all the trouble in the first place and then start the process all over again. Then a few months later find out Sony purposly put this software onto their CD's. Minimum wage X ~30 hours = AorNormal salary X ~30 hours = BorOvertime pay X ~30 hours = CorTime off not being stressed out fixing a computer all over a @#$*(#$ SONY disc! = DSony owes more than a lousy damn $7.50, how about A + B + C + D and then a PS3 and a baseball bat for anger management!!!