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SingStar's DRM is Broken Beyond Belief

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Colin T. from Infinite Bits talks about how horribly mangled SingStar's DRM system is for its downloadable songs:

"SingStar's DRM is by far and away the most controlling system from a videogame company in this day and age, even outstripping the berserk Spore DRM system (which is hard to do)."

Any owner of SingStar will think twice about downloading a song after reading this...
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ctorretta - contributor
Published: 463 days 8 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3
 
 

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Raoh - 463 days 8 hours ago
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that's good to know. i just bought a few singstar tracks over the weekend........

unfortunately i doubt it will be addressed. these are not big concern issues for companies unless it happens in mass and the people go to the internet and doors of the companies with pitch forks and torches..
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LoVeRSaMa - 463 days 3 hours ago
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OMG, not singstar, its like my favorite game, please Sony fix the DRM, what ever will I do.

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PirateThom - 463 days 8 hours ago
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Errr... yes, you can redownload it.

There's a section for "downloaded files".
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typikal82 - 463 days 3 hours ago
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thats what i did, guess the guy's not very bright
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Lord Anubis - 463 days 8 hours ago
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:| he doesn't even explain the procedures he just goes on about how its "Draconian" a word he clearly just learned from reading all the spore DRM issues.
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jmare - 463 days 7 hours ago
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He probably doesn't really know what it means.
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ctorretta - 463 days 7 hours ago
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Draconion? Doesn't that mean delicious?
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3.3 CViper | 463 days 7 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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ctorretta - 463 days 7 hours ago
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Haha, you really think I cut and pasted one word? Even I'm not that lazy.

Clearly you just heard the word for the first time recently, but some of us have had it in our vocabulary for a long time. ;)

-Colin
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wAtdaFck - 463 days 6 hours ago
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Sure Colin...

Attack CViper with insults, but don't defend your use for the word you pointlessly used.

moron
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Dan-Camz - 463 days 7 hours ago
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4 - No Big Deal!!!!
this happend to me when my 60gb broke down and i got my replacement (within 2 days mite i add) , and all u gotta do is phone the playstation helpline, explain the situation and they reset the purchases for u so u can re-download ur purchases on singstar without having to pay again.
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ctorretta - 463 days 7 hours ago
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Really? Cuz I called and did just that and they said I was SOL... I'll try again I guess. :)

-Colin
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harry190 - 463 days 6 hours ago
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harry190 - 463 days 6 hours ago
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7 - Could have tried
making a new profile on his/her PS3 and try and redownload the songs with it. I can't buy any of the stuff on Singstore myself without a PSN card.
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divideby0 - 463 days 6 hours ago
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he just sounds p off that he is one of the very few who had a hardware problem.
I dont d/l this type of stuff so drm dont mean jack to me

I did purchase a warhawk pac and that was fine and I am gonna buy Wipeout..thats pretty much I spend my bucks on.
Never purchased anything from Live
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PirateThom - 463 days 6 hours ago
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Why do we approve stories people have written and contributed themselves?
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harry190 - 463 days 4 hours ago
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don't get to know who submitted it before it gets approved.
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Voozi - 463 days 4 hours ago
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Yea it's kinda dumb imo, but at times you really can't tell since in the pending they have the contributor's name masked during the pending stages, unless they reply to a report someone made, or it's dead obvious who's submitting it via the site it's coming from lol, then as I said before, can't tell who's submitting what

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Lol looks like I went down to 7 bubbles from the 8 I had, wonder who decided to steal 1 from me haha
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mcheather - 463 days 3 hours ago
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Clearly it was approved because people liked it. Why should it matter who submitted it? Since it was approved without anyone knowing it was submitted, it would have gotten approved anyway, no matter who submitted it.
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shadowfish - 462 days 23 hours ago
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@Voozi

Well here's one back :)
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Wrek Gar - 463 days 5 hours ago
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10 - Wierd
I know somebody on my friends list who had to go through the situation he is talking about. My friends system crashed because of his nephew and he had to replace it. On top of that his copy of Singstar was inside the system and he couldn't get it out. He sent the system to SONY who replaced it with a new one and gave him a new copy of Singstar. Then when he found out he couldn't get the songs back he called SONY which refered him to the singstar people. When he got in touch with them it took some time but they dropped DRM and allowed him to re-download all his songs.

Similarly with me, because he was 1 of my 5 and his system went before he could deactivate my account off it I lost 1 sharing ability. I in turn called SONY and after some talking and explaining what I wanted they deactivated all systems that had my account on it. I just spoke to my friends and they reactivated it on their systems again.

So when our friend here says the DRM is broken and that anybody will think twice about downloading songs my friend and my situations are "something" of a contrast to what he says. It may take some doing and granted it should be easier but it can be done to get them to help out.
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vhero - 462 days 21 hours ago
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Sony will reset your purchases when you ring up over the phone its EASY! Unlike Microshaft! Microshaft make you send a reciept and everything to them to transfer licenses. Well until they released that license tool but that only works once a year. At least 360 fanboys cant say anythin on this as EVERY SINGLE 360 ARCADE GAME HAS EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!
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Jdoki - 462 days 20 hours ago
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Don't you just love the internet... A giant ball of goo where anyone can post a knee jerk reaction thinly veiled as 'journalism'. To hell with research, to hell with citing sources, to hell with credibility!!

I'm just going to trot over to Wikipedia and change the Singstar page to include this well reasoned and well justified piece of news about the 'broken' DRM in Singstar - EVERYONE should KNOW about THIS!! /sarcasm - for those unable to grasp the concept...
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