This MUSIC INDUSTRY business was strongly influential about 18 months ago.
I tried to get SONY MEMORYSTICK PROGRAMMING SPECS and was refused any info
unless (1) I proved myself to be an engineer employeed by a major company,
and (2) when I paid a $10,000 fee to join the club. At that point, I
steered away from anything except MMC.

I'm glad I did. MMC is the only one that I feel comfortable with.

--Bob


At 09:25 PM 8/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Sean wrote:
>
> >> With DirecTV suing anyone and everyone who bought a smart card
> >> reader/programmer, without any evidence whatsoever of their having used
>it
> >> to hack into the DirecTV receptions,
>
> > LOL - I hadn't heard this! Are they claiming that they should be the only
>ones to have the rights to this technology? I can buy the kit that Jinx
>mentioned just 10 minutes > from my door! Perhaps Australia is truly the
>"Land of the Free and home of the Brave"? :-)
>
>For details, see http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/07/17/190232.shtml?tid=126 .
>To be more specific, they subpoenaed sales records of sites that
>"advertised" themselves as selling smartcard readers for the implicit
>purpose of DirecTV hacking, and then sued all the people in those records,
>regardless of whether they ever tried to really hack into their system.
>Numerous posters on Slashdot pointed out that the functionally equivalent
>SmartCard reader-programmers sold by such sites were quite cheaper than
>those from "legitimate" sources.
>
>Cheers,
>Ishaan
>
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