Manhattan Symphonie [SONY XCP CONTENT/COPY-PROTECTED CD]

Artist: Dexter Gordon
Label: Sony
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 827969358122
EAN: 0827969358122
ASIN: B0009Y26O0

Release Date: 2005-08-16

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Tracks:

As Time Goes By
Moment's Notice
Tanya
I Told You So
Body And Soul
Ltd
Ruby, My Dear
Secret Love

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Customer Reviews:

Not a review. Read this to avoid the copy protection!!!!!.......2005-11-17

Dear all:
I have not listened to this CD yet. I am assuming that it is good because it is Dexter Gordon. If it has half of the energy in Homecoming, it would be an immortal album. But it will certainly be weird hearing "Tanya" and "Moment's Notice" without a trumpet's harmony...
I am here to tell you how to acquire this CD without the stupid copy protection for safe use anywhere, whether it be a CD player, an iPod, a generic MP3, anything.
The steps here are assuming that the reader has iTunes.
1: You will need to set up an account and program a credit card number to surf and buy from the iTunes Music Store. To do this, you must also have an email address. I recommend you have something faster than dial-up. This too is free; you will only be charged when you buy the CD.
2: Download the CD. It costs $9.99, plus 10% tax. You do not get a case with liner notes in the book, but you may print the cover with your own printer. The songs "I Told You So," "Body and Soul" and "Secret Love" may not be purchased a la carte as individual songs. The others, yes, you may.
3: If you have an iPod, just send the songs over to the iPod and you're done.
4: If you wish to put it on audio CD for a CD player, burn a CD.
5: If you have a non-iPod MP3 player, burn the CD and bring the CD to your other music management software, namely Windows Media Player, Real, or MusicMatch Jukebox. Import and send as normal.
And that's that! Stick it to Sony and spit that copy protection in the face! Another CD saved from technological hell by the friendly superheroes from Apple.
PS: A previous reviewer recommended Dex's Blue Note catalog. I will especially recommend Our Man In Paris. You WILL NOT hear a better Bud Powell. I guarantee it. He especially shows his chops on the bonus track, a Dex-less reading of Like Someone In Love by van Heusen.

Won't buy another Sony CD until they Do "The Next Right Thing".......2005-11-15

This is one of those Sony CD's that contains "XCP" spyware. XCP was written with the intent of concealing its presence and operation from the owner of the computer, and once installed, elements of the software run continuously -- even when no Sony-BMG music CD is in use. It provides no clear uninstallation option.

Additionally, without notifying users, the software appears to contact a remote machine under your control.

Sony has shocked and angered people over this issue. Software that deceives the owner of the computer it runs upon and opens that computer up to attacks by third parties may be expected to come from malicious cyber-attacks; it is certainly not expected nor acceptable to be distributed and sold to paying customers by a major music company.

Sony should temporarily halt manufacturing CDs with XCP and reexamine "all aspects" of their "content protection initiative."

If Sony truly intends to undo the harm that they have caused, they should immediately and publicly commit to the following measures:

1) Sony should recall all CDs that contain the XCP and SunnComm MediaMax technology. It must include removing all infected CDs from store shelves as well as halting all online sales of the affected merchandise.

A recent New York Times article said that well over 2 million infected CDs with the XCP technology are in the marketplace and have yet to be sold.

2) Sony should remove from all current and future marketing materials statements like that on http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html that say the cloaking software "is not malicious and does not compromise security."

3) Sony should widely publicize the potential security and other risks associated with the XCP and SunnComm MediaMax technology to allow the 2.1 million consumers who have already purchased the CDs to make informed decisions regarding their use of those CDs. The publicity campaign should include, at a minimum, issuing a public statement describing the risks and listing every Sony CD, DVD or other product that contains XCP or SunnComm MediaMax. The publicity campaign should be advertised in a manner reasonably calculated to reach all consumers who have purchased the products, in all markets where the CDs have been sold.

4) Sony should cooperate fully with any interested manufacturer of anti-virus, anti-spyware, or similar computer security tools to facilitate the identification and complete removal of XCP and SunnComm MediaMax from the computers of those infected. In particular, Sony should publicly waive any claims it may have for investigation or removal of these tools under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and any similar laws.

5) Sony should offer to refund the purchase price of infected CDs or, at the consumer's election, provide a replacement CD that does not contain the XCP or SunnComm technology. For those consumers who choose to retain infected CDs, develop and make widely available a software update that will allow consumers to easily uninstall the technology without losing the ability to play the CD on their computers.

In addition, consumers should not be required to reveal any personally identifying information to Sony in order to access the update, as Sony is currently requiring.

6) Sony should compensate consumers for any damage to their computers caused by the infected products, including the time, effort, and expenditure required to remedy the damage or verify that their computer systems or networks were or were not altered or damaged by XCP or SunnComm MediaMax products.

I'm not buying any more Sony CD's until they do the above!

DRM + EULA = Don't Buy!.......2005-11-14

As many other reviewers note, these CDs install MALICIOUS software WIHTOUT REQUIRING CONSENT from the user.

This is not the only problem, howerver. Sony's End User License Agreement requires the following things of all consumers who purchase this "content protected" music:

1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. That's because the EULA says that your rights to any copies terminate as soon as you no longer possess the original CD.

2. You can't keep your music on any computers at work. The EULA only gives you the right to put copies on a "personal home computer system owned by you."

3. If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music. The EULA specifically forbids "export" outside the country where you reside.

4. You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer. The EULA immediately terminates if you fail to install any update. No more holding out on those hobble-ware downgrades masquerading as updates.

5. Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. And Sony-BMG disclaims any liability if this "self help" crashes your computer, exposes you to security risks, or any other harm.

6. The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00. That's right, no matter what happens, you can't even get back what you paid for the CD.

7. If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer. Seriously.

8. You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.

9. Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling. The EULA forbids changing, altering, or make derivative works from the music on your computer.

Refer to the following for details:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php">List of Affected CDs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php">EULA analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html">Rootkit analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloaking.html">Continued rootkit analysis</a></li>
</ul>

CD contains DRM software that opens your system to viruses.......2005-11-12

As many people may know by now, Sony was recently caught with egg on their face when a security specialist found out that a recently purchased CD (Van Zant: Get Right With The Man) from Sony music not only installed DRM software (digital rights management, to limit and outright prevent copying music to certain devices), but it did so in such a sneaky way that it hid itself entirely from Windows, and opened the system up to security issues such as viruses.

This CD has the same copyright protection, called XCP. When installed, Sony hijacks your computer and installs custom software which:

1) Hides itself entirely from Windows by installing as a rootkit
2) Hides itself in such a manner that any files begining with $sys$ are also hidden. For example, if you install the XCP copy protection software on your machine, and rename "document.doc" to "$sys$document.doc" it then becomes invivisble to you forever.
3) Installs its own custom CD-Rom drivers to hijack your system. It also sneakily names these drivers "Plug and Play Device Manager" to seem as if it's a part of Windows. Trying to delete these drivers manually will disable your CD-Rom drive entirely.
4) Offers no uninstall option until you manually contact Sony

As of my writing this review, Sony has "apologized" for this incident, and claims they will "re-evaluate" this copyright protection software on their CDs in the future.

In the meantime, a virus is currently running wild, which names itself begining with $sys$ in an attempt to hide from the user and virus scanners.

Several class action lawsuits are also pending against Sony right now.

In summary, as you can tell from above, Sony's actions here are absolutely horrible. This is your music. You purchased it, and they should not have any right to dictate how you can use it, let alone install software which compromises your system security.

This is one of the CDs with Sony's XCP copyright protection software on it, and as a result, you should not buy it to send a message to Sony that this will NOT be tolerated in the future.

Infected with a virus!!!!.......2005-11-10

Sony's DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection software is installed upon insertion of this "audio" cd into your computer. The software is malicious and can ruin your pc to the point of having to format and reinstall everything. This software also sends information about your pc to a Sony server. Do you want Sony to have ALL your information? The so called "patch" that Sony makes available to fix this software does nothing! The software also allows for virus, spyware, and other malicious programs to hide themselves and operate without detection. Currently there are no virus scanners (Norton, Mcafee, etc.) that can detect this software or the viruses it can help hide. The same goes for spyware.

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