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Thursday, October 9, 2003

the wrath of sunncomm

a short while ago, i mentioned something about someone who said something about a feature in software that lots of people use to make computers useful, that might do something that someone else was trying to keep them from doing.

it turns out that the repercussions of this feature may end up making a few lawyers rich.

you see, it seems that there was a company that used this feature of this operating system to build a system to keep evil people from doing evil things with cds. and part of the feature set of this feature is that it can be disabled. so the company that was banking on this concept took a bit of a hit. the ceo thinks his company is worth something like $10 million less because he was defeated by a shift (key). heh. so it’s time to call in the lawyers. i’ll let you interpret the chart yourself. thanks, yahoo.

someone’s gonna make money on this deal, and it won’t be sunncomm, and it won’t be the record industry.

He [peter jacobs, ceo] said the company was also exploring a civil suit based on damage to the company’s reputation, since Halderman concluded that the technology was ineffective without knowing about future enhancements

you are hereby put on notice. if it doesn’t work today, you’re not allowed to say so until the company can make it work in the future. i suppose sunncomm has plans to track down everyone who has a mediamax-cd3-protected audio cd and get them to upgrade to the new version when it works? wait’ll the shareholders get an idea of how much that is going to cost.

posted by roj at 7:27 pm