On 01/29/2011 05:23 AM, Ed Wiser wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/28/apop012811.DTL
I don't really believe this article. I think Sony started going downhill when it bought some record companies. At that point, Sony became more interested in stopping piracy than serving its traditional audio/video-playing customers.
Sony took until 2004 to produce a portable MP3 player because their music guys wanted to lock down the music with their own proprietary ATRAC encoding nonsense. By the time Sony got into the game, the fans had already gone home with their iPods.
They're the ones who used their patents to stop the production of DAT car and portable players and refused to allow much commercial music in the DAT format. This is because the music guys thought the superior DAT format was too easy to copy.
And let's not forget the Sony-BMG rootkit that was secretly installed on millions of Windows machines by the anti-piracy zealots inside Sony. They put a trojan on music CDs that illegally installed itself on computers playing the music.
There are many other examples.
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