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I had a tangentially related situation many (~20?) years ago when I bought a music album released under Sony, I had a sweet PC based Hi-Fi setup, and the DRM ri

I had a tangentially related situation many (~20?) years ago when I bought a music album released under Sony, I had a sweet PC based Hi-Fi setup, and the DRM ring they'd added to the disc meant it wouldn't play back at anything above MP3 128. I noticed a ~1.5cm ring around the outside of the disc was visibly a different colour/texture to the standard audio part; I tried blanking it out with Sharpie which some people online suggested might work, but eventually gave up and contacted Sony to tell them how pissed off I was that they were preventing PC-based music listeners from listening to what they'd bought. They sent back an apology and a new copy of the disk without the DRM/MP3 crap. I bet LibreDrive might have worked by letting me just read the disc raw and grab the bits I need.

johannes1234321 2y ago
Sony really did crazy stuff for "copy protection" on their CDs ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
- n1b0m 2y ago
  “Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files invisible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user and introduced further security vulnerabilities.” That’s diabolical
  - AtlasBarfed 2y ago
    It was likely very illegal as well, but you know big company and a legal system that is/was decades behind the state of the art
dangsux 2y ago
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