Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Copy-Protection Fumbles By Sony
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
"It's been the better part of a decade since Napster and other free song-sharing services began scaring the daylights of the music industry. And still recording companies can't find an effective anti-piracy technology to save their hides. The fact that so-called digital rights management might always be a doomed experiment became painfully clear with the fiasco that erupted after Sony BMG Music Entertainment added a technology known as XCP to more than 50 popular CDs. After it was discovered that XCP opened gaping security holes in users' computers - as did the method Sony BMG offered for removing XCP - Sony BMG was forced to recall the discs this week. Some 4.7 million had been made and 2.1 million sold."
We talked about this issue last week. Here is a really nice article that describes the problem in detail and what the responses have been from the various companies. If you would like to see a list of CDs that have been affected by the recall, click here.
We talked about this issue last week. Here is a really nice article that describes the problem in detail and what the responses have been from the various companies. If you would like to see a list of CDs that have been affected by the recall, click here.
