Sony Testing New Copy Protection

[alexia 0]

Sony is testing a new CD copy protection that allows customers to convert each song only one single time into WMA format.

Tell me what you think about it.

Read the article first! : http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[Tyssen 0]

Read the article first! : http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

Broken link.

The thing with new methods of doing things is that it's only a matter of time before someone works out a way of undoing them again and I can see it happening with any sort of copy protection systems that are invented.

[Saint_Michael 3]

i agree it will be a matter of time

[Danieluchis 0]

yes, i don't really think there's a way to make a perfect anti-piracy thing, because well, like Saint Michael and Thyssen say it's just time, so maybe it will work for a while, besides you can copy the .wma song anyways no?

[cse-icons 0]

yeah... copy protection cannot exist... the best argument I can give for this is that.. whenever u have music you wud surely play it on your computer. Anything that plays on the computer sound card can be recorded by many softwares available over the internet... thus there is no way you can stop it... but the way to discourage it is to make it affordable so that copying is not worth the effort needed... sounds simple but it isn't...any comments??Cheers.

[FLaKes 0]

They can probably make it harder for people to copy, but they will never get rid of copy protection. Just like in another post where people were talking about copy protecting websites. The only thing that can be done is disable right click and view source, so the noobs wont be able to steal it.

[FLaKes 0]

They can probably make it harder for people to copy, but they will never get rid of copy protection. Just like in another post where people were talking about copy protecting websites. The only thing that can be done is disable right click and view source, so the noobs wont be able to steal it.

[Dawid 0]

New copy protection and anti-piracy methods have, and will always be coming out better and better than the last one but as people in this forum have said- It really is only a matter or time before somebody works out how to copy it. The main problem is that no matter what data you use, no matter how encrypted, no matter how much money it has cost- it all boils down to the same thing, simple 1's and 0's- Data is data and you can do what you want with it but there will always be some or other way to manipulate and there are teams, literally teams, of people out there waiting for the challenge. Look at CD-keys and other forms of copy protection, usually methods for bypassing the protection are released within a day, if not within hours to unlock the package and make it free for anybodys use. The most effective copy protection of all time was when games started coming out on CD-ROMS and CD writers just wern't an option for the average consumer for a number of reasons, 1. They basically wern't available and 2. They were way too expensive. Hard drives were also still way too small to copy entire CD's especially when a video-intensive game like Wing Commander 3 came out on 4 CD's and the average Joe only had around 4GB's(absolute max) space and CD writers wern't around. What were the options, this actually led to software developers intentionally not compressing video and software as it made it much harder to copy as the easiest to do it would be to copy it on floppy discs. Does anybody remember when windows 95 came out and you could buy the floppy disc version and it came with somewhere around 40+ floppy discs, what a joke! Imagine the amount of calls Microsoft would have received during that time of faulty discs! Ha! I drool at the thought of the tech support going "Did you drop the disc at any time, format disc? no don't format it" ha ha ha!

[ehabrezk 0]

thank you

[Mysterio 0]

This might be a bit of a security thing they are working for.Good thing for them since ALL the improvements the company is doing.