F—ing Sony copy protection

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So sony wants so desperately for me not to copy their DVDs (as if…I can barely get them into the drive slot in my computer and I barely have time to watch them let alone copy them) that they’ve made newer discs unplayable in my computer.

Somene who knows more than I do, and who has a better system (like a television and a DVD player made by…you guessed it…sony) explains their dick move here. And here.

I was all happy that I got my draft novel to KDT and Netflix delivered Stranger than Fiction the same day. So Spouse and I got Peanut to bed and loaded then crashed then loaded then crashed then loaded then crashed the f—ing copy protected DVD.

But for people who know better, this was news in 2007. It’s 2009 and Netflix is still sending me this. Today.

With whom shall I be more angry? (hint: the answer is not me, for having a seven year old computer and DVD player therein.)

Now I have to go back to my tape flags, damnit!

2 thoughts on “F—ing Sony copy protection”

  2. Unbelievable – I had heard about CDs that won’t play on PC-CD-ROM drives but never had any problems myself…

    Up until now: I rented an older DVD, put it into my computer and … :\

    First I thought the DVD might have suffered some damage, since windows reported some sort of a “file system error” but then I remembered the problems some people have had with CDs, and then of course I saw the sony logo on it…

    Long story short, thankfully on my LG DVD-ROM it works perfectly fine – So I guess I’ll be buying my BluRay-ROM from LG too

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