Lee that is what article is saying Sony started producing everything instead of just the best.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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