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November 14, 2005
See Sony. See Sony Backpedal. See Sony Backpedal Fast.
Posted by Alan Wexelblat
When USA Today has pictures of cute coeds out protesting your product, you KNOW you're in trouble. Sony has issued a terse denial of evil intent along with a tool to remove the cloak.
As Jefferson Graham's story makes clear, consumers aren't happy. Artists aren't happy. Electronics companies aren't happy. But don't expect the Cartel to back down. They'll just batten down the hatches, stonewall, and wait for this to blow over. They're holding on to the fantasy that DRM will save their sinking business models and along the way they'll twist the courts, Congress, and device manufacturers to their wills. The rest of us should, presumably, shut up and suffer in silence.
Update: a friend pointed me to Mark Russinovich's continued flensing of First 4 Internet, the ultimate authors of the DRM package that Sony used. (The content of the page is short; extensive commentary below the posting makes it appear long.)
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1. Andy Armstrong on November 14, 2005 12:58 PM writes...
In the interests of getting 'regular' folk to recognise just how evil this I've knocked up some T shirt designs which you can find here:
http://www.cafepress.com/mojocrash
I'm not actually bothered about selling any shirts - but we should be doing things that non-geeks can understand and I figure a T shirt is a good talking point.
I'm not even suggesting you have to buy them there - make your own. If anyone wants a copy of the artwork to do just that mail me.
Permalink to Comment2. Donna Wentworth on November 15, 2005 12:02 AM writes...
Note: the tool is dangerous and shouldn't be used. Writes Professor Felten:
We are working furiously to nail down the details and will report our results here as soon as we can.
In the meantime, we recommend strongly against downloading or running Sony’s Web-based XCP uninstaller."
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