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My sister works at a dance academy and they rip alot of music onto thier computer and make mix cd's. sony encoded thier cd's that they ripped and after a while sony attacked the operating system after so many rips. so they took it into the repair shop, luckly the guy there knew all about the whole sony thing and was able to save most of thier files and then did a clean reformat. They broke no law they bought all thier music and sony tried to trash thier computer.
It is safe to assume Sony did not trash her system. It was most likely user error, and saying that a company as large as sony would be bothered to trash your sisters system purposefully is a huge accusation, of which noone would ever believed you unless you had huge amounts of proof. I'm guessing you have proof, right?
the guy at the repair shop said sony puts software on thier cd's and after you rip so many cd's it attacks your computer and infects all your files. there was a topic around here that talked about it.
I believe he is right that Sony does install software on your computer whenever you rip a cd legal or not. I think it does actually attack your computer too.
the guy at the repair shop said sony puts software on thier cd's and after you rip so many cd's it attacks your computer and infects all your files. there was a topic around here that talked about it.
SonyBMG does install spyware on your PC, though I have never heard anything about it \"trashing the system.\" And it is SonyBMG, not Sony. They are different.
Sony was installing a type of spyware on their cds. When you tryed to rip them it would install this spyware. I dont know what it did to the computers but a couple people came to me with a really messed up system saying it was work OK untill they tryed ripping a cd from SONY.
I think they were sued or something and forced to remove it as it fell under computer crimes, spyware and malicious program installation without the users knowledge.
Awell Just watch out for these cds and if you find one send it back and request, or demand if you have to, a replacement
It is called XCP. Sony had installed this software onto their CDs. Whenever 'infected' CDs were played/ripped on a computer it would install this software onto the computer, transmitting data to SonyBMG, much like spyware. However, the big deal was that once it was finished, it left the infected computer vunerable to viruses, spyware, etc.
They have released a patch for it, just visit their website, and they are offering refunds/replacements for the CDs with XCP.
they do that because they were downright busted. And as far as i heards there was a lawsuit against them. So they tryed or are trying to reverse what they did. I wouldnt trust the patch i would just clean format. The patch could just fix the security hole the XCP leaves behind. but fail to rid your computer of it. Aftere that i simply have no trust for them
Last edited by TekRat on Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:03 pm; edited 1 time in total
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