Sony, the same company who infected their customer’s PCs with a malicious rootkit in 2005, is back in the DRM scandal game with software that renders some of their DVDs useless in their own DVD players. According to Wired News (via Boing Boing), some Sony DVDs are being copy protected with a technology that prevents them from playing in older model DVD players:
“Suspect titles include regular (not Blu-ray) releases of “Casino Royale,’ “Stranger Than Fiction” and “The Holiday,” all of which render nothing more than a brief title screen on certain DVD players (including some Sony models).”
Amazingly, Wired News reports Sony told one customer that even though Sony software was the reason his DVD would not work, Sony would not fix the problem. They were instead leaving it up to the DVD player manufacturers to fix the issue.
So what about the Sony DVD players that are unable to play these crippled Sony DVDs?
But seriously, when are companies like Sony going to put an end to the atrocious levels of disrespect towards their customers in the name of DRM?
