Sony owns the SACD chipset in the SACD player that is used to decrypt the SACD. It is a carefully controlled and licensed hardware technology. Sony makes money from royalties from manufacturers of SACD players because these manufacturers have to purchase the SACD chipset from Sony.
The damage to Sony if that hardware technology is not needed to listen to music from an SACD (e.g. by a consumer purchasing a downloaded file that was derived from the SACD that can be played on a computer): If the material on an SACD can be accessed by a consumer without the need for the SACD chipset and thus without the need for an SACD player this costs Sony royalty payments from purchasers of the music who would otherwise have to buy an SACD player to listen to the music. If less SACD players are sold, Sony loses money. Here is an analogous situation: each time a consumer opts to use the Streambox search engine that is present on a modified RealPlayer rather than the Snap search engine that is present on an unmodified RealPlayer costs RealNetworks royalty payments from Snap http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/cjoyce/copyright/release10/Real.html -- mortslim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688
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