Techdirt are reporting on the comments of Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer from CES in Las Vegas. 
"Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn't be doing too much of that copy protection stuff."
Prevention actually, good sir. Copy prevention. It prevents me from utilising my fair use copying rights. Perhaps we should rename it "Fair Use Prevention Technology".
"We have to walk the line at Sony between the needs and technology of the customer and the rights of the artist."
Good, and I have to walk the line between listening to music and not funding companies that treat their customers like dogshit. I think, with a few ounces of PodSafe music, I'll shoot for the latter.
If Stringer doesn't realise, now, that digital rights mismanagement technology is about as popular among consumers as herpes, then he's clueless.
