[Gllug] Sony Net MD

[Richard Turner]

That's true, but that's always been the case even with Sony's OpenMG software 
for Windows.  You can 'check-in' music from the MD to the PC, but that's just 
a managed delete from the MD and can only be done to tracks that were 
downloaded to the MD from the PC in the first place.

The only reason for checking-in a track to remove it from an MD is so that 
OpenMG will allow you to download it to another MD later (you're only allowed 
to copy it to an MD three times - after that you have to check-in that track 
from one MD before you can download it to another).

It's all very admirable copy protection malarky, although it's fatally flawed 
- if you're moving a track ripped from a CD you could download it to three 
MDs, delete all info of that track from your PC, rip it again and download to 
another three MD ad infinitum...

Richard.

On Saturday 26 April 2003 11:59 am, Ian Norton wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> my girlfriend has a netmd, she frequently uses debian and gnome on my
> laptop, bla bla,
>
> from what i was made to believe, you can only upload music to the netmd and
> not download, is this true?
>
> Ian
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:37:22PM +0100, Branden Faulls wrote:
> > Richard Turner wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any idea whether it's possible to get Linux to talk to
> > >my Net MD Walkman over its USB interface?  I've just decided to try to
> > >permanently and completely rid myself of Windows, and that's one of the
> > >things I'm going to miss if Linux won't support it.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Richard.
> >
> > This is actually the only reason that I still use my Windows partition.
> >
> >  As music transfer is currently unsupported in Linux, has anyone gotten
> > the OpenMG Music transfer software that comes bundled with the NetMD
> > working under WINE?
> >
> > It seems ugly, but it might help those of us with NetMD's and no
> > reverse-engineering skills to get by in the mean time.
> >
> > Branden
> >
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