Now I'll be the first to admit, I have lots of really good Sony Electronics. My little 14" TV has superior picture. My main DVD player is great too! It will play almost anything. And you can't forget the MiniDisc. Sony has made some great products, but they are now crossing the line to punish the innocent for the actions of the guilty.

First and foremost read this article: Fox News
I've been following this since last week. I didn't say anything at first because I didn't think most of you would care, but many of you would fall into the category of not being aware of what had happend. Sure ignorance can be bliss, until someone steals your identity... So Sony's CD's are installing software that while has legitimate uses, is written poorly, thus compromising PC users security. Their software opens up many possibilities for viruses to attack your computer and be completely undetectable. In addition it also has adverse affects on system performance. Sony says that most users won't even notice, or care about the rootkit. True, but when you make someone's system vulnerable to attacks like they have, there is a problem.

The second has been going on longer, and that is the two new HD discs, HD-DVD, and Blu-Ray(Sony's High Definition DVD technology). http://www.dvdsite.org/faq.html
Once again, Sony (and the other proponents of all HD discs) are punishing people because of the few. I would hate to plop down tons of money for HD, only to have my player turned into a brick. Just because there is that possibility, I wouldn't buy one.

So I urge everyone to stop buying Sony products. Sony electronics, Sony music, and Sony movies(Columbia/Tristar), everything Sony. The only way these companies listen is when the money stops. (Of course they will probably blame it all on piracy.) It's hard, and sucks to do, but until they pull their head out, I'm not giving them another cent.

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Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
Jason

sure… make me feel guilty for buying a Sony DVD burner…. Actually though, I bet your right. If we stopped buying sony products, they would blame it on piracy…. you pirated our DVD burner… you pirated our TV… waaaahhhhh…

-J

Tue Nov 08, 2005 @ 14:48
Comment from: [Member]

Yup… my dad and I were talking about it for a couple hours tonight, along with the evils of Disney (Michael Eisner), and the gravel pit. Basically it comes down to the simple fact that most American’s are stupid. Seriously, it’s like all the people who think that Wal-Mart is great, and don’t realize the grand scheme of things. They won’t care about what Sony does, because they are stupid.

Wed Nov 09, 2005 @ 02:15
Comment from: Jason [Visitor]
Jason

I’m almost afraid to ask, but what’s wrong with Michael Eisner??? I mean besides the fact that all of his “kid” movies contain way too much adult humor, several fallic symbols are found in their movies, and EVERY SINGLE PRINCESS from the princess movies wears OFF THE SHOULDER DRESSES in the end of the move? And he hires pervs like Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy to represent “heros” doing “right"?

Anybody see in the opening scene of robots, the water tower looks like a prince albert???? I dunno, maybe it’s just me.

-J

Wed Nov 09, 2005 @ 03:50
Comment from: [Member]

I made an error, I was thinking of a quote by Jamie Keller, current(2002) CEO of Turner Broadcasting, who previously built up Fox huge, and created the WB (TV network, not the whole company of course.. :))

From Cableworld:
“Jamie Keller: Because of the ad skips…. It’s theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you’re going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn’t get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you’re
actually stealing the programming.

CableWorld: What if you have to go to the bathroom or get up to get a Coke?

JK: I guess there’s a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you’ve got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They’ve done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial.

CW: What if I’m using my PVR to rewind a story on CNN or pause during Moneyline With Lou Dobbs? That’s good for you, isn’t it, if I can keep watching the network when I might otherwise miss the shows?

JK: Is it good for me? It’s good to make it easier for consumers to watch the programs they want to watch. I’m not opposed to consumers getting a program without commercials in it. But they have to create a new model that charges them for that programming the way HBO charges
them.”

So you heard it, if you piss for exactly 30 seconds, and you don’t watch the commercials you are stealing the programming.

Michael Eisner is very into taking our fair-use rights away, and for all DRM. I’m not saying DRM is bad. Make it so I can’t copy my DVD’s, fine. As long as I can still create a media server so I can have all my movies streamed over my home network to any video device. That definitly falls under fair-use! I’m fine with DRM on CD’s. But I still better be able to rip them to MP3’s (no embedded DRM) so I can listen to them in on my car stereo, since I don’t have a CD player. Eisner wanted to take away our rights to fair-use. DRM isn’t bad, but thus far has always been implemented in a way that takes away our rights. In my opinion of course… (maybe it’s time to take this to the forum…)

Wed Nov 09, 2005 @ 22:55


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