I've bought about £3000 of Sony equipment in the last 6 years or so, and undoubtedly have piles of Sony-issued CDs and movies.
I don't foresee myself spending another penny with them until they repent. DRM is clearly incompatible with general-purpose computing devices. It's one thing to build a closed product like the iPod with clear boundaries and expectations, quite another to launch a quasi-criminal broadside against your customers' PCs to install DRM measures.
Hey, how about the Million Blog Challenge: 1,000,000 blogs with their templates re-written so every post starts and ends "*** Don't buy Sony products until they respect their customers: www.sony-screws-your-pc.com ***". Maybe that'll get their attention? Time for a PledgeBank initiative?
Childish lashing out? Not a patch on the damage Sony's done to their customers and people's confidence in their computers, electronics and media.
If one wanted to be vicious and infantile, it would read "*** Samsung make great displays, phones, laptops & the new XBox is cool, so why buy Sony? www.sony-screws-your-pc.com ***".
Meow.
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