Do NOT buy Sony/BMG Cd's

Eunos · Joined: 07 Feb 2004

In their wisdom, Sony/BMG have started installing anti-piracy software on their pre-recorded CD's.....but......

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051110/tc_nm/sony_hack_dc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4424254.stm

Be very aware of this problem. It could cost you everything you have on your computer.

Proud Pies · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: Knox-ish

and here

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17210836%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

HAL · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:37 pm

Let us change the subject. What you said was either too complex or too simple for me.

Dale61 · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:40 pm

If you buy a Celine Dion CD, you deserve everything you get. Razz

Proud Pies · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: Knox-ish

Eunos · Joined: 07 Feb 2004

People Power!!!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=71751

Dale61 · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:59 am

Eunos · Joined: 07 Feb 2004

It was stated that the Mac system was immune to this virus. No mention of Linux.

Eunos · Joined: 07 Feb 2004

A list of infected CD's;
http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

I'm clear then Razz

So many crappy artists in that list Evil or Very Mad

Dark Lord · He's back... Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Location: Parts Unknown

Typical Sony. These are the scumbags who want to enforce Regional Coding for DVDs.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Regional coding sucks... its an outdated policy that should be scrapped. Luckily in Australia we can get multi-region DVD players, as there are many movies that you simply cannot get on DVD here. For example I bought 1984 from england, braindead from America and Pi from America (it is available here but its very hard to get and generally pretty expensive)... if regional coding was enforced I assume that you wouldn't be able to see these movies unless you went to a video store and got a bad VHS version.

Dale61 · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:22 pm

Apparently, one of the courts has now made it legal to install a mod chip into PS2's, X-Box's, etc, as they felt that region coding was anti-competitive, or something like that.

Also, if your DVD player allows it, you can punch in a special code that will over-ride the existing region coding so that you can purchase movies from overseas.

All this info is easy to find, just google for it.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

My only DVD player was my ps2, which unfortunately set to one region.. I can't remember exactly but I think the mod chips are a bit expensive and you risk damaging the machine. As for other DVD players, it seems that about 95% in Australia are either region-free or allow you to type in some code as mentioned by Dale above. Thank God we don't live in America where region-free DVD players are illegal.

Dale61 · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 11:33 am

DfC, if you get a mod chip installed by someone who knows what they are doing, then you shouldn't get any damage.

All a mod chip does is override the motherboard settings when it looks for the region code.

I had my first PS chipped when it was illegal to do so as I had access to games from Japan. Pity I couldn't read Japanese as I could only guess how to play the game.

I bet all the chippers at the Laverton market will have a marked increase in business.