Tag: Sony
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oh the irony…
Sony BMG sued for piracy. It doesn’t rain but it pours for Sony does it? Please oh great IronyMagnet, EMI next, pretty please….
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Applecack
Now frequent readers of this blog will know how much I love Apple, and when Charles II the iPod went wrong a few weeks back (problems with the headphone and docking socket, freezes, havign to keep restoring it) 10 months into the warrant, I wasn’t holding out much hope. The speed of Applecare’s response and…
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grr
Sony DVD-R’s are shit. Bought a large 50-stack of 16 speed ones them and about half have failed, even at 8 or 4 speed, where my usual TDKs are fine. AVOID! That is all…
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Pay to Play – your digital rights?
Something that has been bubbling under for a while is the attack on DJs using CD-Rs or laptops to play tracks they either already own but burn onto CD (like I do, burning a set onto CD saves wear on my original CDs and I can burn my mashups to CD as otherwise I couldn’t…
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Another instance of Big Brother CD DRM & Disable your Autorun NOW!
Following the shameful Sony rootkit debacle looks like otehr companies haven’t learned it’s PR lesson. From Ars Technica via greatbearmd’s blog that now the new Coldplay CD X&Y has DRM automatically installed in some countries such as India and a long legal message saying how the CD won’t work in the majority of CD burners,…
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American Edit gets Cease and Desist after only 10 days
Wow – it’s not a good time for poor ol’ Dean Gray and the amazing Greenday American Edit remix album – got a response, all good apart from Warners serving a Cease and Desist on the album – the site has been pulled, but there are already murmurs about another (Dean) Gray Tuesday – certainly…