On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:37:05PM +1000, Paul L Daniels wrote:
>
> Personally, I bought a Sony DVD reader (About $90).
My last buy was a sony cdrw. But Sony are evil,
and it's probably the last Sony thing I'll ever buy:
Andre Hedrick, Linux IDE maintainer:
"Asking me to make it so you or anyone else can
bypass copy-content-protection is out of the question. If you
do not ask the device to do bad things, then it will not do bad
things back at you." He went on to add, "I agree this is silly
but the DMCA/RIAA/MPAA and company are out to hurt people and
their rights. [...] These people are sneaky and in the dark." The
problematic drive in question was manufactured by Sony, a company
notorious for its "aggressive anti-piracy stance". Andre went so
far as to suggest, "Make a note, DON'T BUY SONY CDRW Products
Also read:
http://cryptome.org/jg-wwwcp.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/21736.html
BTW, Lite-On generally get very good reviews,
and they seem to be quite cheap.
Matt
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