Texas sues Sony over anti-piracy CD's

[LarryCraig729]

The state of Texas (in the United States) has sued Sony over Sony's implementation of anti-piracy on it's CD's. The state used anti-spyware laws as justification. From yahoo.com:

"The state sued Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Monday under its new anti-spyware law, saying anti-piracy technology the company slipped into music CDs leaves huge security holes on consumers' computers. <!--/summary-->The lawsuit is over the so-called XCP technology that Sony had added to more than 50 CDs to restrict to three the number of times a single disc could be copied. After a storm of criticism, Sony recalled the discs last week. "

[Alien Bay]

Yea, Larry, I read the article in my local paper today with much joy. When you really start digging into Sony's attitude toward the consumer.. they really suck. Personally, I'll go out of my way to buy SONY

Below is a link to the full story.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/sony_eff.html

[toomanycats]

In case you didn't know, Sony has this same attitude towards purchasers of their electronic products. I had a T.V. repair shop for about 8 years and found that if you puchased a Sony product that was dead on arrival, they would insist on repairing that product rather than giving you a new one, I am talking D.O.A, not something you had a while. If you puchase a SONY projector or T.V. from anyone other that a Circuit City or Sears which will take back D.O.A. products you could be out of luck, and have to wait weeks to get your product back. Also, I read that the U.S. Government issued a statement warning Hollywood and Music studios that they own the intellectual rights to their DVD's and CD's but to remember they do not own the computers that play them, and not to install software on said computers without permission.