SonyBMG y sus sistemas anti-copiaEsta vez se han pasao!
Para quien no sepa de que va, hace unos dias que SonyBMG está en el punto de mira debido a un sistema DRM que lleva alguno de sus discos de música. Para no extenderme mucho, básicamente lo que hacen es, una vez introduces el CD en una máquina güindous se muestra un EULA que debes aceptar para poder reproducirlo y, al hacerlo, instala en tu máquina un rootkit (vamos, como si fuera spyware).
Total, que una vez la historia salta a la opinión pública, los susodichos lanzan un "ServicePack" desde su pàgina web (jejeje, un SP para el por el dichoso CD de música) para que puedas desinstalar el software. Pero, cómo es habitual en güindous, el patch desactiva el DRM instalado pero no lo borra. Cualquier intento posterior de eliminarlo suele acabar con el CD dejando de funcionar... :-(
Vaya, que acabas reinstalando el güindous por intentar escuchar en el PC un CD Original!!Aún hay más! Como se ve que tienes un iPod y te quieres llevar la música
que has comprado de paseo, necesitas activar dicho patch para poder
ripear las canciones en iTunes. Lo curioso son las instrucciones que da SonyBMG para hacerlo:
Si eres usuario de Mac te dicen:
If you have a Macintosh computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do.Hasta aqui lo de siempre, pero si tienes Güindous:
If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the Sony BMG audio player on the CD to automatically start. If the player software does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer. Locate and select the drive letter for your CD drive. On the disc you will find either a file named LaunchCD.exe or Autorun.exe. Double-click this file to manually start the player. TIP: If your CD does not contain either the LaunchCD.exe or Autorun.exe files, it may not be compatible with this iPod solution. Please reply to this letter for more information. Once the Sony BMG player application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu. Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps. Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher (or another fully compatible player that can playback secure WMA files, such as MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp). You can then burn the songs to a standard Audio CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you will need to upgrade to, or already have, Windows Media Player 9 or 10. Once the standard Audio CD has been created, place this copied CD back into your computer and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would any normal audio CD.JAJAJAJA!!! y para rizar el rizo añaden esta coletilla:
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html Thank you for the opportunity to be of assistance.O sea, ¿que la culpa de que en güindous sea tan complicado es de Apple? ¿no?
Ver para creer...
via: MacDaily News