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Story: Flaw found in Sony DRM patch

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The biggest thing here is that Sony is hurting the artist that it was trying to protect. As the dig their grave deeper and deeper, the general public is becoming less trusting of Sony. People are more reluctant to purchase a Sony CD and so the artist loses, not Sony. And while Sony has badly hurt their own reputation, people WILL return. But by that time these artists may have already left Sony in pursuit of something better.

The whole copy protection is pointless anyway. As long as copy protection exists, so will ways to defeat that copy protection. I'm reminded of a story not that long ago about it being defeated with a felt tipped pen. This just goes to show the ingenuity of the public. This will not change either. As more and more efforts go into copy protection, I'm realizing just how futile it really is...

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