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Originally Posted by HarryT
Hi kacir,
I am a software author myself. If I licenced a 3rd party DRM package for use on my software CDs in good faith, who would you blame if the DRM messed up your computer? Me, or the company who produced the DRM software? Doubtless I would be legally responsible, since it was my software that you bought, but could I really be "blamed" for it?
Isn't this the situation with Sony? That they licenced this DRM package in good faith from another company? One may disagree with their decision to impose DRM on music CDs (I certainly don't think it's a good idea), but is it really Sony's fault that it all went horribly wrong?
Don't you think that you might be blaming the wrong people for this?
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Ok, granted, Sony did not write that DRM software. But what Sony should have done was to at least test it to make sure it worked as advertised and to see exactly what it did. Then if it was to their satisfaction, then they could have released it knowing it was what they wanted. I do blmae Sony for not testing this abomination before releasing it. Also, if I was contracting someone to write code for me, I'd want the source code as well to look it over.