http://www.boycottsony.us/?p=34 All about egregiously anti-customer behavior by everyone's favorite BigCo. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:31:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.boycottsony.us/?p=34#comment-236 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:43:00 +0000 http://www.boycottsony.us/?p=34#comment-236 SunnComm's MediaMax is also prohibitive to a fault. I am unable to make a backup copy of my CD or make my music portable via mp3s. I hate SunnComm. We need to get Sony to take this garbage off the market, too. SunnComm’s MediaMax is also prohibitive to a fault. I am unable to make a backup copy of my CD or make my music portable via mp3s. I hate SunnComm. We need to get Sony to take this garbage off the market, too.

]]> http://www.boycottsony.us/?p=34#comment-132 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:37:37 +0000 http://www.boycottsony.us/?p=34#comment-132 [...] Not unrealistic at all, Dan, judging from the activity in the comments of this site and the number of signatures on the petition. And the article hits many of the right points, including the EULA and Microsoft’s recent decision to start uncloaking the software via its antispyware too. But one important point XCP isn’t Sony’s only DRM scheme. The MediaMax scheme from SunComm is guilty of all of the same violations of customer computers except for the cloaking, and it’s still on the market. In fact, it’s also on one of the CDs that Dan highlighted in his column’s sidebar, My Morning Jacket’s Z. I think Dan does his readers a disservice by inveighing against XCP while recommending a CD with a similarly virulent DRM technology and not mentioning the DRM. [...] […] Not unrealistic at all, Dan, judging from the activity in the comments of this site and the number of signatures on the petition. And the article hits many of the right points, including the EULA and Microsoft’s recent decision to start uncloaking the software via its antispyware too. But one important point XCP isn’t Sony’s only DRM scheme. The MediaMax scheme from SunComm is guilty of all of the same violations of customer computers except for the cloaking, and it’s still on the market. In fact, it’s also on one of the CDs that Dan highlighted in his column’s sidebar, My Morning Jacket’s Z. I think Dan does his readers a disservice by inveighing against XCP while recommending a CD with a similarly virulent DRM technology and not mentioning the DRM. […]

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