{"id":3072,"date":"2005-11-20T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/11\/20\/sony-cd-drm-can-be-evaded-with-piece"},"modified":"2005-11-20T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T19:28:12","slug":"sony-cd-drm-can-be-evaded-with-piece-of-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/11\/20\/sony-cd-drm-can-be-evaded-with-piece-of-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony CD DRM Can Be Evaded With Piece of Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1488'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/resources\/136300\/136331\/sony_bmg_drm_a_publicrelatio_136331.pdf\">this report<\/a><br \/>\nfrom Gartner researchers Martin Reynolds and Mike McGuire.&nbsp; Just<br \/>\nanother level of bizarre stupidity in this mess. Reynolds and McGuire<br \/>\nsum it up nicely: <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&#8220;Sony BMG&#8217;s DRM technology will prevent<br \/>\nneither informed casual copiers nor high-volume &#8216;pirates&#8217; from doing<br \/>\nwhatever they like with the content the disc [sic]. It does, however,<br \/>\nload &#8216;stealth&#8217; software &#x2014; software that has been demonstrated to have<br \/>\nsuspect effects &#x2014; on uninformed users&#8217; machines. The bottom line: Sony<br \/>\nBMG has created serious public-relations and legal issues for itself,<br \/>\nand for no good reason.&#8221;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See this report from Gartner researchers Martin Reynolds and Mike McGuire.&nbsp; Just another level of bizarre stupidity in this mess. Reynolds and McGuire sum it up nicely: &#8220;Sony BMG&#8217;s DRM technology will prevent neither informed casual copiers nor high-volume &#8216;pirates&#8217; from doing whatever they like with the content the disc [sic]. It does, however, load [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}