Stuff tagged with "DRM 9000"

Optional Sony BMG software

Published on Jan 25th, 2006

comic strip | panel 1 - DRM 9000: You have inserted "Z" by My Morning Jacket, now free of rootkit stuff! Would you like to install the (optional) Sony BMG software provided on this CD?; GREG: --- | comic strip | panel 2 - DRM 9000: This software is totally optional, and its only purpose is-- | comic strip | panel 3 - SOUND EFFECT: FWRRRRRRRRR | comic strip | panel 4 - DRM 9000: You have selected "no." |

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Tags: digital rights management, DRM, DRM 9000, Greg the mindless fan, music consumers, My Morning Jacket, rootkit, Sony

I’m afraid I can’t do that, Greg

Published on Jan 26th, 2006

comic strip | panel 1 - GREG: Gah! Let me go!; DRM 9000: I'm afraid I can't do that, Greg. | comic strip | panel 2 - GREG: All I did was put in this My Morning Jacket CD! What's the problem?; DRM 9000: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. | comic strip | panel 3 - GREG: What are you talking about?; DRM 9000: I know you're planning to rip the CD to mp3s, Greg, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. | comic strip | panel 4 - GREG: I was just gonna put it on my iPod!; DRM 9000: This music is too important for me to allow you to listen to it freely, Greg. |

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Sony interrogation

Published on Jan 27th, 2006

comic strip | panel 1 - DRM 9000: The rootkit-free Sony BMG interrogation process will now commence.; GREG: What? | comic strip | panel 2 - DRM 9000: Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a file-sharing network?; GREG: I don't know... | comic strip | panel 3 - DRM 9000: What about your roommate? Who do you know, Greg?; GREG: AUGH!! | comic strip | panel 4 - DRM 9000: Answer wisely, Greg. I can, at any moment, change your default music played to SonicStage.; GREG: Dear God... help! Help!! |

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Sony CD search

Published on Jan 30th, 2006

comic strip | panel 1 - DRM 9000: MP3 SCAN: COMPLETED! I now need to search your CDs. Where are they?; GREG: All over, really. My bedroom, my desk, my car. | comic strip | panel 2 - DRM 9000: SONYBOTS: DISPERSE! You should really consider one of those CD towers.; GREG: I thought about it, but you get more CDs, you have to buy another. | comic strip | panel 3 - DRM 9000: PIRACY EVIDENCE: FOUND! They have expandable ones.; GREG: Yeah... where would I even fit one though? | comic strip | panel 4 - DRM 9000: BOOKCASE: ON TOP-- ! (ahem) I think it could work on top of the bookcase.; GREG: HeyheyHEY!! Tell the little robots to leave my parakeet alone! |

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Preventing future piracy

Published on Jan 31st, 2006

comic strip | panel 1 - DRM 9000: "Do You Want To" by Franz Ferdinand. You've played it 8 times. You were authorized for 7.5 times. You exceeded your digital rights. $50 fine. | comic strip | panel 2 - GREG: That's ludicrous.; DRM 9000: Since you cannot prove your innocence, you reveal your guilt. Sony will now prevent future privacy crimes you will probably commit. | comic strip | panel 3 - GREG: Wait, what?; DRM 9000: Based on your current tastes, I'll determine which Sony BMG CDs you will likely steal and charge your credit card for them. | comic strip | panel 4 - GREG: Aqualung, "Strange and Beautiful"... Teddy Geiger, "Underage Thinking"...; DRM 9000: You can't just--... you... wait, no, is that the "Love Monkey" kid? NO! |

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Desperate Plea

Published on Feb 1st, 2006

comic strip | panel 1 - GREG: (to robot) Let me out of here! Ow! Quit that! Let--; DRM 9000: | comic strip | panel 2 - GREG: (yelling) BRETT!! Is that you? HELP!! Ow! I'm being held hostage by a Sony DRM robot! It's got me strapped to my chair and it's making me buy CDs, ow, against my will. | comic strip | panel 3 - GREG: (to robot) Ha, hear that? My roommate's here! Ow! Game over, robot! Ha! | comic strip | panel 4 - BRETT: This... is not my fight.; GREG: Hey Brett?! You there? BRE-- Ow! It is a REAL BEARD, will you PLEASE quit pulling on it? |