OT: Fair use, DRM and rootkits

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:20 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 04. Nov, 2005 schwätzte Technomage so:
> 
> > On Friday 04 November 2005 13:29, Shawn Badger wrote:
> >> Looks like someone at Sony was feeling a little pressure.
> >> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/03/HNsonypatch_1.html?source=NLC-TB2
> >> 005-11-03
> >>
> >
> > HAH!
> > it still didn't remove the problem. I have w windows box here that is now
> > useless to me for ANYTHING (I use it for data formats and applications not
> > yet available under linux or runnable under wine).
> >
> > Their little DRM (a la rootkit) did a lot more damage. it disabled my adaptive
> > technology. now its going to cost me some real $$$ (about $500.00) from the
> > vendor of my speech synth software to get a new code key to reinstall my
> > package (I so hate "Jaws for Windows" for this reason!).
> 
> Do you need a new code because the old one no longer works or because the
> rootkit interfered and you don't know what the old one was?
> 
> Would the attorney general or some other office be able to help? Dunno if
> this qualifies as going against the disabilities act, but you'd think at
> least Sony PR would not want the appearance of having gone against it.
> 
----
might be hard to make a case for the DRM making his Windows machine
useless for anything as that is presumptive that it was useful for
something before.

;-)

Craig


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