Sony copy protection taking heat again
04/17/2007 13:40 |
DVD Rips
Reports continue to filter in about DVDs that refuse
to play on standard players from Toshiba, LG,
Pioneer, Sony, and others. The culprit is titles that
utilize Sony's
ARccOS
copy protection scheme, such as Disney's "Pirates of
the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," The Weinstein
Company's "Lucky Number Slevin," and Sony's "Casino
Royale," "The Holiday," and "Stranger Than Fiction."
ARccOS artificially scrambles sectors on the disc in
an attempt to keep users from ripping the disc to a
drive. Many older (or less sophisticated) players
simply skip these corrupted areas as unreadable and
continue on. Computers -- and unfortunately, some
newer players -- try to perform error correction on
these areas and fail playback. When contacted, Sony
seems to deny the problem, much like Microsoft and
the 360 disc scratching, and simply passes the buck
onto the player manufacturers to upgrade their
firmware. Meanwhile, many users have simply
downloaded programs to bypass the protection and make
copies without the "defect."
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