It’s been found out that with all the trouble that Sony is in, it only takes a piece of tape to thwart their CD copy-protection scheme. A piece of opaque tape when applied to the outer edge of a Sony BMG copy-potected music CD will render the copy-protection useless. As qouted from Gartner:
“Sony BMG has created serious public-relations and legal issues for itself, and for no good reason.”
But even this piece of news won’t probably bring back the consumers into buying copy-protected music CDs. Retailers report that some consumers have become angry that the CDs they bought won’t allow them to play it on a computer to copy the music onto to their iPods. Consumers are dropping the CDs with the label “copy-protected” or “copy-controlled” like hot potatoes.
But the bad news just keeps on piling on top of Sony. The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against Sony for violating the state’s anti-spyware law. Texas’s General Attorney said that Sony has exposed consumers to spyware, viruses and possible identity theft, all the while, believing that they were just buying a music CD.
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