Sony ... anti-copy ... at it again

[muckshifter]

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.

... so, what do I do as I only have a PC DVD drive ... easy.

Meanwhile, many users have simply downloaded programs to bypass the protection and make copies without the "defect."

Easy init ... use a program to copy an anti-copy DVD so you can watch it.

Nice one again Sony.



* mucks does not condone copywrite theft *

 

[Anon_F]

I think Toshiba did this with early DVD-ROM drives with PC's.
I can remember my Packard Bell refused to play some films & a patch sorted it all out!
And an interesting article Muckshifter.