Sony. Synonymous with evil, the devil and all that jazz. Whoever thought of DRM should be stripped naked, slapped over with a fish and put on the sex offenders' register.

YEAH!!!! SOMEONE WHO AGREES!!!!!

It would be great if we didn't degrade the legitimacy of Neoseeker by bringing our personal biases into a news article.

I think it's time to stop saying "Sony" and start finding out who exactly is responsible for this nonsense and get them out. After all Sony is just a company, and a large one at that, you can't keep saying that it's simply Sony that is deciding to do this when it's probably one high management guy in one branch out of Sony's many branches making these *bleep*ed decisions.

Yeah...It would be sort of like Blaming the White house, for something one state does...

But yeah, I agree, it is some stupid thing here...But personal bias in the article is a bit meh...it might have been better, if it was just a note at the end...

I don't think it is personal bias to speak out against DRM that makes everyones lives worse.

It would be biased if I only bashed some DRM vendors - but I bash them all equally in an unbiased manner.

Sony is gay..............

Well, you can actually blame Sony. Like any corporation I'm sure something this major would go by the board of directors who would vote on this.

More likely they go by the words of their lawyers who are the only ones who can understand the cryptic rantings of a record company and or movie studio lawyer who is tasked with demanding that all vendors adopt DRM.

But just look HDCP (High-Definition Copy Protection). There's workings and goings on that will have the hardware we buy being able to control what we can and cannot watch, depending entirely upon the DRM that said media has been wrapped with. SO it begs te question; what happens when an HDCP player refuses to play a DVD that has no restrictive DRM encoded within it?

It would be the equivalent of Ford telling Ford car buyers that they can't use any other type of gasoline other than Ford gas at a Ford gas station.

There's only one easy way around DRM and HDCP: Don't buy anything that uses restrictive DRM or HDCP! Eventually, the industry will get that idea and back off a bit. They have to realize too that DRM and HDCP doesn't deter piracy, but simply serves to piss off their own consumer base.

Screw it, let's all go back to the big 45 turn table records and 35mm movie film. Digital content is nice, but the copyright holders are complicating things for us because .01% of the population has decided to earn $3 per hour trying to hock some crappy copy of some movie DVD and or music CD.

Ok, I am not bringing my personel bias into this, I just have not found many who agree with my thinking on all this. Whcih is that sony has made some bady choices, yes SONY, the whole manegment, not just one guys, has made some dumb choices, and they have lost alot of money, so now they are going ot dig us for cash, not in my life time.

Man this is stupid, whoever is running project management there needs to be replaced.