When I bought my Sony CD burner, I received a Sony Connect Cash Card redeemable for 10 free downloads from connect.com. Should I worry about Sony installing malware into my system along with their proprietary download software? I would love to get 10 free songs but not at the expense of a crashed computer!
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.. considering your question, it makes me wonder why you even bought a sony burner 
..... but since it is sony, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of malware, and not to mention the songs are probably heavily DRM'd and might be unplayable away from sony software/hardware... I suggest doing some research on this connect.com and the software (i don't know if it's bad or not, i just hate all things sony 
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..... but since it is sony, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of malware, and not to mention the songs are probably heavily DRM'd and might be unplayable away from sony software/hardware... I suggest doing some research on this connect.com and the software (i don't know if it's bad or not, i just hate all things sony )
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i just hate all things sony
...even regular audio cds, which they helped to create?
Having been a captive user of OpenMG/SonicStage/Connect due to being a Net/Hi-MD user for some years I can quite highly recommend that you don't touch it with a bargepole. I was always put off buying music via connect due to the fact that the encodings are in ATRAC, so you are from the start limited in what they will play back on, unless you transcode, which you can't because they come with DRM, and even if you could, the encodings are only at 128/132kbps bitrate.
That's completely apart from the fact that OpenMG/SonicStage/Connect has consistently been the most buggy, slow and unreliable piece of software that I have ever had the misfortune to use.
The amount of complete Windows re-installs and data loss I have suffered using this junk isn't worth 100 free songs, let alone 10. Stay away!
That's completely apart from the fact that OpenMG/SonicStage/Connect has consistently been the most buggy, slow and unreliable piece of software that I have ever had the misfortune to use.
The amount of complete Windows re-installs and data loss I have suffered using this junk isn't worth 100 free songs, let alone 10. Stay away!
Yay, Sony still makes some good, sexy hardware, but their software has always been catastrophic, among the worst...
Random example: Just to upgrade a 500 kB firmware on my W800i phone (a truly great piece of hardware btw) I had to install 280MB of trash, including macromedia flash, java, 6 different USB drivers, not counting the software itself and the need for ~40 connection attemps to their unreliable server...
And when the update was finally started, it asked me to hold the 'C' key and power on the phone (which I did), then asked to release the 'C' key (which I did) and it never went past that... Yeah, even 10 minutes later, it was still asking to release the key, which I had done 10 minutes ago
This lets you imagine what connect.com would do on your system ! Don't !!
If you want/need to install Sony software, I recommend a throw-away vmware machine... and that's serious
Random example: Just to upgrade a 500 kB firmware on my W800i phone (a truly great piece of hardware btw) I had to install 280MB of trash, including macromedia flash, java, 6 different USB drivers, not counting the software itself and the need for ~40 connection attemps to their unreliable server...
And when the update was finally started, it asked me to hold the 'C' key and power on the phone (which I did), then asked to release the 'C' key (which I did) and it never went past that... Yeah, even 10 minutes later, it was still asking to release the key, which I had done 10 minutes ago
This lets you imagine what connect.com would do on your system ! Don't !!
If you want/need to install Sony software, I recommend a throw-away vmware machine... and that's serious
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