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Well, maybe do some better research than just reacting to the name before judging stuff? It seems to play things like mp3, wav, aiff, flac and more formats per

Well, maybe do some better research than just reacting to the name before judging stuff? It seems to play things like mp3, wav, aiff, flac and more formats perfectly fine, so hook the thing up to a computer, it shows up as a USB Mass Storage device and you chuck your illegally/legally acquired files over and it'll play it. Can't find anything else that says it has built in DRM, so why would you assume so?

hilbert42 4y ago
It's hard to explain to anyone who never experienced Sony in the days when Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita—Sony's founders—ran the company. Those were the hardware days before the company freaked out and went into entertainment, films and other intellectual property ventures to the extent of putting root kit viruses on people's computers. In those days Sony was an excellent company and had excellent customer service, its equipment was leading edge/state of the art. I still have lots of equipment from that era that still works. I was so enamored with the original Walkman that one afternoon when in Akihabara I bought four different versions of the device. I have a Sony 100W HiFi that's now 49 years old and its as good as the day it was purchased; I've two ICF-2010 radio receivers bought nearly 40 years ago and they're still used every day—even after all that time their volume potentiometers still havn't gone scratchy. Anyone who owns a ICF-2010 is unlikely to sell it as it's iconic and best of class. Moreover, its service manual is a sight to behold, it ought to be held up by the Rights to Repair advocates as the quintessential way companies should handle service. That company called Sony once run by engineers with engineering excellence as their aim no longer exists! What we now have is miserly spiteful interloper company that has the audacity to still trade under the name of 'Sony'. There's no point me adding more, you either understand what I'm on about or you don't. For the record, I've never been infected with the Sony root kit virus, nor have I pirated any of its IP (I've almost no interest in movies). What I'm on about is that a Trojan horse took over the company and it's never been the same since.

hilbert42 4y ago

It's hard to explain to anyone who never experienced Sony in the days when Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita—Sony's founders—ran the company. Those were the hardware days before the company freaked out and went into entertainment, films and other intellectual property ventures to the extent of putting root kit viruses on people's computers. In those days Sony was an excellent company and had excellent customer service, its equipment was leading edge/state of the art. I still have lots of equipment from that era that still works. I was so enamored with the original Walkman that one afternoon when in Akihabara I bought four different versions of the device. I have a Sony 100W HiFi that's now 49 years old and its as good as the day it was purchased; I've two ICF-2010 radio receivers bought nearly 40 years ago and they're still used every day—even after all that time their volume potentiometers still havn't gone scratchy. Anyone who owns a ICF-2010 is unlikely to sell it as it's iconic and best of class. Moreover, its service manual is a sight to behold, it ought to be held up by the Rights to Repair advocates as the quintessential way companies should handle service. That company called Sony once run by engineers with engineering excellence as their aim no longer exists! What we now have is miserly spiteful interloper company that has the audacity to still trade under the name of 'Sony'. There's no point me adding more, you either understand what I'm on about or you don't. For the record, I've never been infected with the Sony root kit virus, nor have I pirated any of its IP (I've almost no interest in movies). What I'm on about is that a Trojan horse took over the company and it's never been the same since.