don't buy Sony!!

**bugjuice** · 15th November 2005, 09:07

they seemed to have bugged their music CDs and the reports look like they can be a little misleading. What makes it worse, is it's PCs and macs (OSX, so you're safe BD)..

Tech News World report

Some geek talk

**WRT** · 15th November 2005, 09:13

Yeah I read about that a little while back. Dont really buy CD's tho (if I'm spending money on tunes, its on vinyl) and it isnt going to stop me buying Sony electronics gear.

**bugjuice** · 15th November 2005, 09:14

well, no.. and sony do have some good things, but as far as their music stuff goes, it'll taint everything that sony do for a while.. see their pathetic attempt at the MP3 player, and their ATRAC crap or whatever..

their music labels are worth a few billion tho, and if the artists are having their records dubbed with crap people don't want, who's really loosing?

**WRT** · 15th November 2005, 09:20

If you are going up head to head with the iPod, you better have something damn special . . .

**N4CR** · 15th November 2005, 09:24

Yeah that was splashed around last week on the geeky sites :P Some pretty annoyed people - especially when Sony got scared and released a patch where it removed the rootkit and then screwed the computer up

Another link...
boycott sony @ wired.com

**James Deuce** · 15th November 2005, 09:35

Just freaking download Sony releases. That'll learn 'em.

I've had issues playing copy protected Sony releases on my older Sony gear. I get a mid-range tone that drowns the music out. I emailed Sony and got told to buy newer gear.

Meh.

**Karma** · 15th November 2005, 10:18

It's rather ironic really.

Sony owns / is part of BMI which is taking people to court over copyright infringement.

Then Sony release the Net-MD MiniDisc player / recorder, but don't provide any albums available to purchase on MiniDisc, hence the only way to use this device is to download MP3s or copy them from CDs.

Seems like they're trying to stiff us both ways.

**Motu** · 15th November 2005, 10:44

A couple of years ago I bought a Sony MP3 discman,I thought I'd pay an extra $50 for the name and quality.It had problems playing burned CDs,normal or MP3...I changed my burner,and burned from a couple of other computers,but it was still the same.Smith the Dick would have nothing to do with it,my warranty was crap - a bloody expensive discman and I won't get sucked into the quality name brand crap again.

**Phurrball** · 15th November 2005, 11:12

Aye - the issue with OSX Macs is less potentially damaging than that that for windoze PeeCees (Adds a kernel extension on OSX Macs apparently) But is still not good.

Apparently there have been at least three pieces of malware discovered that take advantage of the back-door entry that Sony's uninvited addition provides on Windoze PeeCees. Litigation in train I imagine...

Thanks to Russel Brown's blog for this info - read these two posts for more on the evils of this particular piece of Sony nastiness.

I personally don't like Sony - you end up paying for the name (to no great advantage oftentimes) and they seem to love doing funny propreitary things that don't play well with any other devices you may have...

**SPORK** · 15th November 2005, 11:15

*Obligitory "Should Use Linux" post*

**Pathos** · 15th November 2005, 11:48

if you turn off auto run like I do they won't do anything.

Not going to buy them tho.

**Sniper** · 15th November 2005, 13:29

Those dirty bastards. I have something that will fix them...

**riffer** · 15th November 2005, 14:50

Originally Posted by Sniper

Those dirty bastards. I have something that will fix them...

$sys$destroy_sony_pc.exe?

Been tried at least 3 times in the last fortnight already.

**inlinefour** · 15th November 2005, 14:56

Originally Posted by Motu

A couple of years ago I bought a Sony MP3 discman,I thought I'd pay an extra $50 for the name and quality.It had problems playing burned CDs,normal or MP3...I changed my burner,and burned from a couple of other computers,but it was still the same.Smith the Dick would have nothing to do with it,my warranty was crap - a bloody expensive discman and I won't get sucked into the quality name brand crap again.

However it playes all burned discs in normal format, however its a MP3 discman and is rather fussy on what typre of MP3 format it'll run.