arstechnica.com— Sony has fumbled again with trying to implement DRM on its media, this time with a handful of DVDs that the company has now agreed to replace.
Apr 18, 2007View in Crawl 4
I put a rented copy of Stranger than Fiction in my RCA DVD player - and the DVD player got to the menu and then completely died. I don't know if it was the fault of the DRM, or just the one-year-old player's "time to die" - but the player is a complete brick now. I had to take apart the thing just to get the disc out. (Another slightly interesting point... When I took the thing out, I did notice that my RCA DVD player used a Sony DVD reading mechanism - as the laser module clearly had the Sony logo on it)
yeah the backlash from starforce was so bad its pretty much disappeared all together from games. Every once and awhile a game from germany or croatia has it but you no longer see it used on bigname titles anymore. Its all securom and tages and to a lesser degree safedisc.
I have Anchor Bay titles that don't have CSS on them. I just ripped my Critters DVD so I could get the end credits song off the movie and DVD Decrypter didn't use any keys when pulling the data off.
Putting errors on specific sectors of the disc? Wow, that's original! ARccOS? Is that what they call it now? I remember the games of late 70's and early 80s for the C64 and Atari 800 used the same copy protection scheme. It caused the same problem back then.Case in point. Sublogic's Flight Simulator II (aka the predecessor to Microsoft Flight Simulator) would work fine on the Atari 810 drive, but the Atari XF551 drive couldn't load the game. I think the Rana drives also had the same problem.Why do I have the feeling Sony is probably trying to patent this copy protection scheme? Way to go Sony! I can't wait for your next mistake. They keep getting better.
ryebryeApr 19, 2007
I put a rented copy of Stranger than Fiction in my RCA DVD player - and the DVD player got to the menu and then completely died. I don't know if it was the fault of the DRM, or just the one-year-old player's "time to die" - but the player is a complete brick now. I had to take apart the thing just to get the disc out. (Another slightly interesting point... When I took the thing out, I did notice that my RCA DVD player used a Sony DVD reading mechanism - as the laser module clearly had the Sony logo on it)
benitojuarezApr 19, 2007
yeah the backlash from starforce was so bad its pretty much disappeared all together from games. Every once and awhile a game from germany or croatia has it but you no longer see it used on bigname titles anymore. Its all securom and tages and to a lesser degree safedisc.
gryffyddApr 19, 2007
@GawtMilkcunnilingus != fellatiodork.
acdcfanbillApr 19, 2007
I have Anchor Bay titles that don't have CSS on them. I just ripped my Critters DVD so I could get the end credits song off the movie and DVD Decrypter didn't use any keys when pulling the data off.
acdcfanbillApr 19, 2007
It was actually my C.H.U.D. dvd, Critters is sitting next to me here, and my brain made me stupid :( Critters is New Line.
timta2Apr 19, 2007
And on the Mac side MacTheRipper, DVD2One, and Toast do a fine job with Arccos.
bjornskiApr 19, 2007
Never another cent.Never.
tirofibanApr 20, 2007
Putting errors on specific sectors of the disc? Wow, that's original! ARccOS? Is that what they call it now? I remember the games of late 70's and early 80s for the C64 and Atari 800 used the same copy protection scheme. It caused the same problem back then.Case in point. Sublogic's Flight Simulator II (aka the predecessor to Microsoft Flight Simulator) would work fine on the Atari 810 drive, but the Atari XF551 drive couldn't load the game. I think the Rana drives also had the same problem.Why do I have the feeling Sony is probably trying to patent this copy protection scheme? Way to go Sony! I can't wait for your next mistake. They keep getting better.