Foo Fighters Album: “In Your Honor [DualDisc]”

Sony's copy protection scheme installs harmful rootkit software on Windows machines. This software can crash your machine, and make it easier for viruses to infect you. By design, it is impossible to uninstall without advanced technical skills.

Sony recently released a patch to mitigate these concerns. However, the patch only addresses the issue of potential virus infection. Uninstalling the software is still nearly impossible, and if attempted incorrectly can render your CD drive unusable.

For more information, check out this site:

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html

While every corporation/radio station/(insert organization here) is giving away Ipods & Mp3 players, Foo Fighters' record label decides that in order to cut down on piracy, they will prevent us (buying customers) from being able to download this cd into our music libraries. The old phrase above comes to mind.

Luckily I haven't opened the CD yet and I damn well plan to return it. Not to make a statement but simply because I consider music 75% pointless if I can't listen to it on my portable audio.

IDIOTS!

I love the music, I just wish I could play it on my computer and MP3 player. Unfortunately, the copy protection software installed on this disk prevents that.

I am one of the few people left who actually believes that artists should be paid for their music and makes a point of buying and not pirating CDs. In return for being a good citizen, I get a CD that is unplayable. Goodbye Foo Fighters. Hello KazAA.

Sorry guys. I love your work and I've bought everything you've released upto this point, but I have to vote with my wallet this time.

I hope it wasn't your decision to distribute with copy protection and it's just Sony's corporate pissing match against Apple at the expense of their customer base.

Why should I listen to poor quality audio? I want to appreciate all the work you put into this, not downgrade my audio experience by losing quality getting this onto my iPod just to 'play fair' with Sony's DRM.

I'm sure the album rocks, but I hope you'll re-release without Sony's DRM. Chalk up yet another Sony product consumer loss for me this year. Next year I won't be buying a PS3 and it's even more crippling Blu-Ray DRM either. I regrettably can't trust any Sony product from this point onwards; Foo Fighter DVD/Blu-Ray discs included.

While only the regular edition is listed as copy protected by Amazon's information, the Limited Edition is copy protected as well. There is even a small note stating that the audio portion of this Dualdisc does not conform to CD standards; so this isn't a CD. Thats terrible. Here's a note to all bands releasing copy protected "CD"s . I am a customer and a fan, not a thief - Treat me as a theif and i will not be a customer or a fan anymore. I don't buy copy protected discs, so this one goes back. Pity. Disabling Auto-Insert works, but I shouldn't have to.