It's About Time For A Little Restitution Here

The gizmo standard-bearers at Engadget are reporting today that Sony is yanking the incompetently realized DRM-protected CDs that we've been railing against in our never-ending campaign to topple the old music industry. Sony says it will replace any of the malware-ridden CDs it sold over the past year — it made about four million of them, and sold 2.1 million — this has satisfied Engadget (and us). The post continues: "Looks like this might pinch ‘em in the pocketbook more than a little, but if this whole fiasco is what it takes to teach the industry a lesson about the pitfalls of poor practices in DRM, then so be it." Elsewhere on the Web, Sony-related statements are getting more extreme and more dire, as has been the case for the last couple Sony-related posts at Slashdot, infamous for the endless flame wars on its discussion boards. Most recently, they're linking to a piece that even predicts the company's downfall. Even the msm, in this Fortune piece, is getting in on the act. Can Sony sell enough Vaios, Playstation 3s and Jagged Edge CDs to stay ahead of this growing discontent?

Posted by Philip Ewing at November 15, 2005 10:21 AM

Category: The Soundscape