Sony being evil

[Munkay]

Back in college I heard it was possible to use portable devices to share music, something about losing the encryption while on the player. Didn't pay much attention, as we found a loophole in the campus network to let Bittorrent through, but would that sort of thing be possible?

You mean this?

It's such a fundamental thing that it is impossible to make a CD that a legacy player can read and play, and yet the CD is actually copy-protected.  What, no matter how perfect the encryption is, the absolute most you need is an old CD player with a digital out and a sound card with a digital in?  Surely Sony knows this.  And they can only go so far in making CDs that won't play on CD players.  :rolleyes:  Which means they are relying on people being ignorant for their copy-protection scheme to work.  I have a feeling that the people who manage to bootleg these albums onto the P2P networks before the album is even released don't fall into that category of being hindered by a stupid pet trick.  All it takes is one person to successfully rip a file without DRM riders and the whole world has it.

Cheers,

Munk