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To: One-Four-Five
Try reading it again. One could not make a legal copy on their computer without installing illegal and potentially dangerous spyware without knowledge or consent.

This statement is false too. You could make a copy, if you did so before you agreed to Sony's prompt to install their software. You had to agree to that, remember? And even then you could have made legal copies.

But had I ripped one of these CDs, I would have had to break the law in order to remove illegal & potentially dangerous spyware from my computer.

Again, this is wrong. Even with the "evil" Sony rootkit, you could have "ripped" copies.

156 posted on 04/25/2006 6:48:51 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

This is becoming tiresome. My statement was not false.

>You could make a copy, if you did so before you agreed to Sony's prompt to install their software. You had to agree to that, remember?

There was nothing in the EULA that said anything about illegal and potentially dangerous spyware, only mention of "copy protection." Are you actually suggesting that XCP customers agreed to the installation of illegal and potentially dangerous spyware by virtue of their acceptance of copy protection? You've got to be kidding.

So I say, again: one could NOT make a LEGAL COPY of PURCHASED media on Sony BMG music CDs with XCP without installing ILLEGAL and POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SPYWARE on their computers.

>And even then you could have made legal copies.

There is no "then" if one didn't want illegal and potentially dangerous spyware on their computers.

>Even with the "evil" Sony rootkit, you could have "ripped" copies.

Not without installing illegal and potentially dangerous spyware on their computer.

Do I have to repeat the same statement of fact in every post? Why is this necessary? Are you five years old?


162 posted on 04/25/2006 7:18:30 PM PDT by One-Four-Five
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