Comments on: Sony BMG spyware and Apple DRM http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7229 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:25:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7229#comment-25880 Reader's Write Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:48:39 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7229#comment-25880 It increasingly looks as though SONY's XCP was actually part of a pissing contest with Apple and less to do with controlling user rights. That in itself is fairly appalling. Here we have two megacorps fighting over the right to lock in their customers to their platform and in the process deliberately crippling their products, making them less useful to their customers. And at least one of them is doing this while being less than honest with their customers as to what they were doing. And of course screwing up royally from code that breaks other people's license agreements to exploitable bugs in the code and in the uninstall program to questionable business practices to a complete inability to come clean and try and repair the damage. We should actually encourage them and feed them more rope. DRM as a concept is taking the hits just as much as Sony. Are you listening, Apple? Or are you feeling self -righteous because it's Sony taking the hit? It increasingly looks as though SONY’s XCP was actually part of a pissing contest with Apple and less to do with controlling user rights. That in itself is fairly appalling. Here we have two megacorps fighting over the right to lock in their customers to their platform and in the process deliberately crippling their products, making them less useful to their customers. And at least one of them is doing this while being less than honest with their customers as to what they were doing. And of course screwing up royally from code that breaks other people’s license agreements to exploitable bugs in the code and in the uninstall program to questionable business practices to a complete inability to come clean and try and repair the damage.

We should actually encourage them and feed them more rope. DRM as a concept is taking the hits just as much as Sony. Are you listening, Apple? Or are you feeling self -righteous because it’s Sony taking the hit?

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