Posts with keyword: sony

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Reasons to Buy a Mac Mini

Thu Dec 27 14:59:00 2007

For Christmas, I bought a Sony XBR4 40" LCD TV from Amazon. I was thinking I ought to get an Apple TV to go with it, but then thought that a Mac Mini might be more versatile. While in the midst of indecision, Dave Winer made up my mind for me and Scoble put the icing on the cake. I'll get a Mac Mini. Dave's new product--not yet released--sounds like a fun convergence of a big, bright beautiful screen hanging on the wall and the Internet. The XBR4 already has a DVI input, so hooking up ought to be
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DRM, TiVo, and the iPod

Mon Nov 21 09:43:00 2005

I put a little piece at Between the Lines on TiVo's announcement that they future versions of TiVoToGo will have support for creating iPod ready video. While you're there, check out David Berlind's article on Sony and DRM. Apparently Sony is rethinking DRM as a strategy. In related news, the rootkit and other CD DRM techniques can be defeated by scotch tape. Cool.
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Cringely on Sony and Grokster

Fri Nov 18 18:23:00 2005

Robert X. Cringely on the Sony rootkit capper and Groksters last days: The rootkit of all evil: As if foisting Mariah Carey on us wasn't bad enough; Sony (Profile, Products, Articles) BMG Music Entertainment has been caught installing a rootkit -- a tool typically used by malware. If you play a copy-protected Sony CD on your PC, it installs a digital rights management scheme you can neither detect nor remove. After security wonks revealed the rootkit could be used to compromise systems merely by appending the prefix "$sys$" to the name of any rogue program, Sony and software partner
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