http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4424254.stm
Nice one... that's all I can say. Keep the price of CDs down and most people will buy them.
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Sony sued over copy-protected CDs
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4424254.stm
Nice one... that's all I can say. Keep the price of CDs down and most people will buy them.
another opportunity to vote with money as a consumer
Aside from having to defend against lawsuits I think Sony didn't realize the trickle down effect upon their whole product line from their nefarious scheme. This consumer won't soon forget what they considered an acceptable approach to copy protection.
Aside from having to defend against lawsuits I think Sony didn't realize the trickle down effect upon their whole product line from their nefarious scheme. This consumer won't soon forget what they considered an acceptable approach to copy protection.
I don't agree with lawsuits to stop this, but if it works i will still be happy.
Boy sony justy doesn't know when to stop, first they make up reviews for their movies + lots of other things then they go and do this, silly really, if they didn't charge $13 "manufacturing" for a CD perhaps they wouldn't have this problem. Then again TCP is just around corner maybe they won't have to for much longer
Boy sony justy doesn't know when to stop, first they make up reviews for their movies + lots of other things then they go and do this, silly really, if they didn't charge $13 "manufacturing" for a CD perhaps they wouldn't have this problem. Then again TCP is just around corner maybe they won't have to for much longer
Blue Velvet said:
My thought exactly. At an average price of 20-25 (
) I don't really feel too bad about any illegal music I may or may not have Bring the price of CDs down to a reasonable price and there won't be a need for copy protection. Most people will start buying their music again. Thanks to iTMS (not a perfect solution, but still) I've started buying music again
well, i hope they can get 1 million people with screwed up windows systems for the class action. per person $200 fine for their effort to reinstall the computer (sounds about reasonable to me). makes 200 million damages that sony has to pay. plus lawyers fees.
let's see if this copy protection system saved them more than 200 million dollars. i don't think so.
if their digital cameras weren't so good i wouldn't buy anything from them anymore ever. but the next camera purchase is three years down the road. till then some other company will have good cameras as well.
let's see if this copy protection system saved them more than 200 million dollars. i don't think so.
if their digital cameras weren't so good i wouldn't buy anything from them anymore ever. but the next camera purchase is three years down the road. till then some other company will have good cameras as well.
Blue Velvet said:
They're coming down, sssslllooowwwlllyyy.
Using the US consumer price index calculator and some historical lists for new releases, there is a picture of what has happened. The historical premium for CD has basically evaporated and then some.
Code:
year album list adjusted to
at the time 2005 US$
1969 6.98 (vinyl) 37.81
1979 8.98 (vinyl) 24.59
1982 9.98 (vinyl) 20.56
1985 16.98 (CD) 31.37
2005 13.98 or 19.98 (CD, depends on label)(still looking for the figures during the 1990s price fixing scandal)
iMeowbot said:
you also need to take into account technology, and the ease/cost of production etc...
CD prices are generally higher in the UK than in the US.
Apart from online vendors, in the shops many non-chart CDs can go for £13-18, sometimes higher which is about US$22-32+...
Apart from online vendors, in the shops many non-chart CDs can go for £13-18, sometimes higher which is about US$22-32+...
It's a percentage, changed little over time. Performers generally break even if their stuff hits somewhere around gold or platinum, the way they're going to make money is by using a record to bring people out to concerts, buy merchandise, etc. If their sales are higher, they do make decent money. Writers can do much better than that, there's a ka-ching on every commercial play.whocares said:
I'm curious about that market too, and looking for realistic historical prices to see what has happened. Old list prices have a funny way of disappearing themselvesBlue Velvet said:
IFPI and RIAA are useless sources, they like to quote averages that can include all kinds of cruft. The interesting numbers for stuff like this are really the list prices for new releases, not the cut-rate compilations and so on.
Are you serious?! Sony has the worst digital cameras I have ever used. I have used several of them and they were all garbage, poor picture quality and diificult to operate.andiwm2003 said:
Stampyhead said:
i'm using the dsc-p150. it's a consumer point and shoot, 7.2 megapix. it's small, supereasy to use, robust, great picture quality. some annoying things like a special powercable and stuff. i like it although it's a sony.
Ignoring the piracy issue for a moment, I think it's complete bullsh*t for any company to use spyware/virus tech in order to control access to products bought by consumers. Sony may have the right to jack prices up to the limit a market will tolerate but they have no right to install software on my computer.
iMeowbot said:
I hate it when people bring this type of crap up. Using the US as an example, then the minimum wage should be like $9 an hour! And I should be getting about $10K more a year than I am now!
iMeowbot said:
You also have to look at the extra profits that the labels and artists have been able to reap with rising ticket costs and promotional costs paid by other companies today.
Lord Blackadder said:
Amen. Why should a CD not be readable on my Mac? And why should I be limited in bring the music I bought on a CD in to iTunes?
I hope that Sony and others loose their asses in the courts over this BS.
Regarding Sony's copy-protection scheme, I saw just earlier today on digg about a MacInTouch report that claimed that this copy-protection scheme also worked on Macs. The report suggested that the CD installed kernel extensions on the Mac that the CD was inserted into.
Can anybody else confirm this?
Can anybody else confirm this?
I can understand why companies want to implement copy protection (even though they know it is ultimately futile) however implementing it in this type of a manner is very poor in my opinion. I shall remember this one, Sony...
For those who have been keeping up on this, you must read the latest on it:
http://newtechinc.blogspot.com/2005/11/using-sonys-drm-against-itself.html
http://newtechinc.blogspot.com/2005/11/using-sonys-drm-against-itself.html
mms said:
Sounds as though it is to do with "enhanced" content, whatever that is. Other articles suggest that these discs function as audio CDs on Macs. The extensions cannot be installed without user intervention - they have to run an app from the CD and then provide administrator password. It is not the same copy protection (the first4internet stuff) either, but the older SunComm stuff. Not that it is any more acceptable.
...And now it's being used to create viruses!
As a further development to the rootkit fiasco, some hackers have now used the Sony technology to develop viruses (Link)
Per the article, the lawyers in the lawsuits could now use this as evidence against Sony that the anti-piracy measures could actually harm your computer
As a further development to the rootkit fiasco, some hackers have now used the Sony technology to develop viruses (Link)
Per the article, the lawyers in the lawsuits could now use this as evidence against Sony that the anti-piracy measures could actually harm your computer