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It's sad Sony put the effort into writing rootkits for music CD's but did nothing to automate, flag, fix typos for metadata...
by lloydatkinson 1y ago
It's sad Sony put the effort into writing rootkits for music CD's but did nothing to automate, flag, fix typos for metadata...
- Henchman21 1y agoAgreed. I could say tons here, but it’ll suffice to say that I am wildly happy I no longer work there!
- mxuribe 1y agoI remember the Sony rootkits...Since then and to this day, i avoid buying anything related to Sony as best i can. Funny thing is, folks who know me know that i am not the kind of person who holds a grudge....but something about that rootkit event really brought the ire in me....one of the extremely few times where i held a grudge. So, i avoid Sony and go on with my life. I also stop buying at other companies...but for other companies for some reason i don;'t hold onto the ire...i just stop buying from them, and quietly move on...but Sony....i don't get it, but the dislike is crazy.
- Henchman21 1y agoI recall a meeting where my team was asked to do some technical legwork for the implementation. To his credit, my boss stood up, said some words about ethics, and led our team out the door. It wasn’t the entire org… just the music business folks as I recall. I left shortly thereafter.
- mxuribe 1y agoI highly commend you, your boss, and any others who stood up or otherwise rebelled against the despicable Sony leaders who wanted this to be done. I can only imagine that it would not have been easy. My appreciation goes out to you, your boss, and the rest of the team...and i only wish there were more folks like you in the world! For that, thank you sincerely!
- Henchman21 1y agoAll that praise goes to my old boss; the rest of us were a bit shocked we’d been asked such a thing! But he was already saying no before I’d even processed the request. He succeeded in delaying that “project” several years — I left in ‘04. IIRC this became public late ‘05-early ‘06?
- qingcharles 1y agoI was doing digital ingestion for Sony in Europe and they sent us all those hobbled "unrippable" CDs and asked us to rip them for streaming. They were kinda embarrassed about it.
- Henchman21 1y agoMan, I bet you guys went through a couple boxes of sharpies getting those ready to rip! :)
- 47282847 1y agoMany Plextor models were known to beat basically any copy protection; otherwise it was mostly luck which drive managed, and some lists with shared findings.
- qingcharles 1y agoYeah, we had stacks of different drives to try and get the worst offenders ripped. The Plextors were our primaries, though.