Am Samstag, den 04.12.2010, 17:10 +0100 schrieb Adrian Glaubitz: > I have written a draft for this section and I also would like to publish the official > answers from Sony USA and Sony Japan. I don't know whether publishing the answers really is a good idea, but I think it should be no problem. > Legal Situation > --------------- > > Sony uses a sophisticated DRM (digital rights management) system called OpenMG > in SonicStage and their NetMD and HiMD hardware to establish a secured and controlled > environment for dealing with digital content. OpenMG ensures that digital content > bought over their former online music store "Connect" or through the purchase > and subsequent ripping of audio CDs, is protected against unauthorized copying > and distribution. Since this content protection must also be maintained when > copying the music onto the NetMD/HiMD hardware, both use some kind of encryption > to transfer (NetMD) and store (HiMD) the content onto the media. This means, > that it is not possible to transfer content to and from the devices without > knowing these secret keys, i.e. alpha-numerical codes, from Sony which are used > to de- and encrypt the content. We have asked Sony for their kind permission > to disclose both these keys for NetMD and HiMD access into public so that we > can use the keys in our open source software, but unfortunately, they did > not grant us to do so. You can read the official statements from Sony Japan > here and Sony USA here. Without these keys, both our NetMD as well as HiMD > software has only limited transfer capabilities and the use of additional, > external keyfiles which provide these necessary keys are required. We > do not provide these. This sounds very reasonable. Regards, Michael Karcher