Comments on: Sony DRM and the press corpse

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:38:20 +0000

The reason none of the Anti-Virus companies moved very quickly on this is because of the DMCA. Check out this link at the EFF. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/?f=unintended_consequences.html

Is it really surprising no-one was falling over themselves to release an un-installer? Alex Haldermann got the dogs set on him for suggesting holding down the shift key when inserting a copy-protected CD – the company behind it was SunnComm, another of Sonys copy protection suppliers.

Microsoft also knew well in advance due to blue screens caused by aries.sys which is part of the ‘rootkit’. What did they do? Simply directed people to First4Internet and Sony.

They are all SCARED of the recording industry lawyers and the DCMA – and I for one don’t blame them. I doubt Norton, F-Secure, CA or any of the other security companies could afford to go head to head with Sony on this, especially if Sony had been quick off the mark with its PR machine. As already mentioned this ‘tech’ stuff doesn’t get much main stream press attention, but music piracy certainly does.

Thank god for blogs and the bravery shown by Mark Russinovich and F-Secure.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:42:30 +0000

The headline for this article says just about all there is to say on the subject. With instant person to person information sharing now a reality, the press, which does little more than regurgitate corporate news handouts, will soon find itself a casualty in the war being waged by suppliers against their own consumers, and the corpse of the press corps will soon wither and sere in the sunlight of the Information Age.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:26:24 +0000

Sony and Sony owned Colombia Pictures have very large advertisement budgets. That give Sony a great deal of power in the news media, the press. Also many media companies are in the movie industry. For example CBS is owned by the same company that owns Paramount Pictures. Time-Warner owns Warner Brother, and so on.

We cannot expect impartial coverage by the news media. Freedom of the press means that, the “press” is free to fool the customer or viewers so as to retain the advertiser customers or to help the other businesses of the “press” conglomarates.

Freedom of the (traditional) press has always been a mirage. Luckily the Internet cames just in time to spread the true news. Nevertheless we must be alert. Dark forces are trying to limit the uses of the Internet under the guise of protecting copyright owners.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:36:18 +0000

Of course the real answer as to why mainstream journalists don’t get this and can’t write about it, is that they’re all arts graduates!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:34:04 +0000

Yes this does make sense. in todays fast food type press the effort is to get out a story first, be sensationalistic, and get the ratings. Todays breed of reporters do not know what real investigative reporting is and are obsessed with tabloid type stories that take up whole half hour shows. Example, I read where Greta Van Sustern (sp?) of Fox has climbed to the top “news show” mostly because of her coverage of Natalee Holloway.

The older reporters who know how to follow up on leads and get it right before airing a story are either trapped in the beauracy of todays Media conglomorates, more interested in politics, or are so overwealmed with work all they can do is spoonfeed press releases from corporate america to the public as truths.

Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, Bernard Shaw, have taken a back seat to Geraldo Reveria, Rita Cosby, and Bill O’reiley.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:36:42 +0000

Lol @ the suggestion provided by the poster above. In that theme you can just about guarentee world wide coverage if you can link it to being something being cause by those dastardly p2p pirates.

*wanders off looking for where the ship parking lot is, while feeling for more change to feed the meter*

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:45:51 +0000

It’s simple you see. It’s called a cover up!!!! But if you could link Bush to it then it would get a ton of Press!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:37:41 +0000

In Oz the only mention i’ve seen it get in the local rags (yes rupert and kerry they’re all just rags, get over it) has been official press releases.

So here’s the trick. When you want them to mention something, just find out their fax number and send them an “official press release for immediate release”. They won’t have the time or inclination to check that it’s the real thing or not and will probly only edit it for space reasons if at all.