Sorry for all the bumps but it took looking 82 fucking pages of "media" threads to find some that dealt with the fucking RIAA,DRM software, SunnComm or "CD piracy".
Nice search feature there.
Everytime I typed in RIAA or R.I.A.A. etc. I'd get no results.
The initial article linked in the first post talks about what I just found out about tonight.
I was just up in arms because I just got the Kasabian CD and wanted to make a backup of it for my car(WHICH IS FUCKING LEGAL BTW! ) and I find that after I inserted it into my computer, it installed some crap device driver to prevent me from excersizing my fair use rights!!!!
The program is called "mediaMax" and it's apparently also on the Velvet Revolver CD.
I was so freaking mad. Not so much that it was copy protected but that it pretty much installed software on my comp without my authorization.
I looked up this copy protection scheme up on Google and it led me
here.. Good thourough and useful site by the way. Now if I had known about all this beforehand, I could have simply pressed my shift key down as I loaded the disc and none of this crap would have happened. Yes, the so-called "copy protection" is that good. LOL!
However, since I was unaware of this, then i had to go into the device manager and disable the driver for that program that installed itself the minute I inserted my CD into my CD drive.. Yeah, it's that easy to disable too! Which leads me to ask then WHY THE FUCK INCLUDE THIS CRAP IN A CD IN THE 1ST PLACE???!!!!
I'm not sure what'll happen if I simply uninstall the driver but I don't want to risk finding out.
Here's an intersting article I also came across that details this scheme that is being used apparently only by Sony-BMG. I just wanted to vent my outrage over it. We're quickly losing even our "fair use" rights to sate these motherfuckers' greed.
Sony-BMG: "What matters to us is the consumer experience. So we're going to make it worse."
