[xaitv]

> We forget that the labels also consider that piracy. For a while there were attempts to make CDs un-rippable.

One of these attempts that I assume most people are familiar with but is an interesting read for those that aren't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

[qingcharles]

The irony was that Sony wanted all those CDs on streaming, so they sent them to me to rip because they didn't have any other proper digital copy for ingestion at the time. (It wasn't just the rootkit ones, either, they tried a bunch of other really ugly methods across their catalogue to stop the CDs being useable in a CD-ROM drive)

[MilkLizard]

And of course Sony was involved

[fridder]

Sony has so often footgunned itself it is comical. Occasionally great engineering hobbled by terrible business choices