Is the following article correct in saying that the Sony "anti-piracy"
methods "[snip] only crashes Apple Macs, so that's hardly an angry mob
[snip]":
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/15/1023864366683.html
It appears curious that Sony would only take measures against the Mac
platform when it's highly cited that the MS platform is more widely used.
Anyone have any follow up info on this (I frequently listen to CD's in my
iMac whilst surfing/programming/Quaking)?
No, it's probably just accidental that Sony's anti-piracy measures
cause the iMac to fall over. It's primarily designed to prevent
copying on PC's. Of course it only has to work on a handful of
machines to make the copy protection worthless.
Enterprising people might just get out their marker pens and disable
the anti-piracy measures, at least until the police come and arrest
them for having marker pens
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Oh, and if they've got copy-protection on them, they're technically
not CD's as they don't conform to the CD standard.
There are already a number of lawsuits in the US against music
manufacturers using such copy protection techniques.
Have fun,
Shay
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