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Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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Ah Sony Music is involved.
Remember the time Sony Music installed a rootkit on peoples' computers via commercially purchased CDs because hacking paying customers' computers seemed like a good way to combat piracy?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
Yup, I got rootkitted by those fuckers just installing their bullshit software for my mini-disc player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ofxFrwzDHM&t=41s
I remember Sony forcing everyone to use their proprietary SonicStage software and proprietary ATRAC3 audio file format with their Mini Disc players. Nothing else would work on their products. Thank goodness big industries don't influence governments worldwide, or we'd be heading into some kind of dystopia DRM-laden in every aspect of our lives. Oh wait...