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fjtorres · 05-23-2014, 09:12 AM

Sony had weird ideas in those days.
I remember their first digital music player: it wouldn't play mp3 files and it used an obscene check-out/check-in DRM that *moved* ripped files back and forth from the PC to the player and back:
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/sonyclip.html

Mind you, a few since gone and forgotten ebook vendors did the same thing. Which is why they are gone and forgotten.

05-23-2014, 09:12 AM	#30
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Sony had weird ideas in those days. I remember their first digital music player: it wouldn't play mp3 files and it used an obscene check-out/check-in DRM that moved ripped files back and forth from the PC to the player and back: http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/sonyclip.html Mind you, a few since gone and forgotten ebook vendors did the same thing. Which is why they are gone and forgotten.