{"id":11054,"date":"2007-04-18T08:25:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/18\/its-so-secure-even-our-customers-cant-use-it.html"},"modified":"2007-04-18T08:25:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T15:25:03","slug":"its_so_secure_even_our_cu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/its_so_secure_even_our_cu.html","title":{"rendered":"“It’s so secure, even our customers can’t use it!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony’s started putting some new DRM (copy protection) software on its DVDs — that even breaks new Sony DVD players<\/a>.  Nicely done, guys!  Here’s one Sony DVD player owner’s discussion with their tech line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sony Tech: We know about this problem.  Its our new copy protection that\u2019s making these discs unplayable in some players including our own,  we do not intend to change the copy protection<\/strong>.  The only correction to this problem is a firmware update to your player.  The electronics division know about this and should have given you this information.<\/p>\n

Me: OK send me the firmware update.<\/p>\n

Sony Tech: We do not have one as yet.<\/p>\n

Me: OK (a bit frustrated) when will it be available?<\/p>\n

Sony Tech: It could be 2 weeks it could be a month, we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But at least the customer will know his DVD is safe from piracy in the meantime!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, if you are looking to buy any new DVDs from Sony, you might want to do some online research to see if they are so protected, and if folks who have the same DVD player as you are reporting problems.  Or, y’know, if that’s too much work … you could just not buy any new Sony DVDs …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony’s started putting some new DRM (copy protection) software on its DVDs — that even breaks new Sony DVD players.  Nicely done, guys!  Here’s one Sony DVD player owner’s discussion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7348,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/sanity_in_the_s.html","url_meta":{"origin":11054,"position":0},"title":"Sanity in the standards wars? 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