quzar
April 19th, 2007, 03:43
In a continuation of the story reported earlier [found here (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=60029)], Sony has caved into pressure (and probably fear of repeating the same lawsuits that came from the rootkit fiasco) and are now offering replacements for over 20 different DVD titles that contained a new form of protection on them that wouldn't allow them to play in some DVD players.
The issue was caused by an update they made to their ARccoS Copy protection scheme that was supposed to make it even harder to copy. The interesting part of it is that even before this update that they have rolled back all titles with ARccoS were known to be incompatible with a number of DVD players.
I could not find the full list of titles Sony is offering new copies of, but know that it's at least for: Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royal, and Rocky Balboa.
For a full list of titles using ARccoS, see this wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DVDs_Protected_by_ARccoS).
Anyone who has any of these titles and cannot play them (or even if you can) is encouraged to call Sony's toll free help at 800.860.2878 and complain.
Hopefully with enough complaints (as, for now they are admitting they made the protection incompatability worse, but claim that only one hundredth of one thousandth of people buying these movies have complained) they will replace any disc with ARccoS.
Sources:
ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070418-sony-to-replace-incompatible-dvds.html)
Videobusiness (http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6434584.html)
Sony DADC (http://www.sonydadc.com/americas/prod.newtech.arccos1.go)
The issue was caused by an update they made to their ARccoS Copy protection scheme that was supposed to make it even harder to copy. The interesting part of it is that even before this update that they have rolled back all titles with ARccoS were known to be incompatible with a number of DVD players.
I could not find the full list of titles Sony is offering new copies of, but know that it's at least for: Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royal, and Rocky Balboa.
For a full list of titles using ARccoS, see this wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DVDs_Protected_by_ARccoS).
Anyone who has any of these titles and cannot play them (or even if you can) is encouraged to call Sony's toll free help at 800.860.2878 and complain.
Hopefully with enough complaints (as, for now they are admitting they made the protection incompatability worse, but claim that only one hundredth of one thousandth of people buying these movies have complained) they will replace any disc with ARccoS.
Sources:
ars technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070418-sony-to-replace-incompatible-dvds.html)
Videobusiness (http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6434584.html)
Sony DADC (http://www.sonydadc.com/americas/prod.newtech.arccos1.go)