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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Cerberus on June 03, 2005, 01:03:49 AM
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A few days ago, I bought a new personal minidisc player. I got it home, set it up, and installed the music management software that came with it.
After installing it, an icon was placed on my desktop that takes me straight to their product registration section. When I got there and read through the TOS, the following sections caught my eye:
Cookies and web beacons
Certain Sony websites may employ an industry-wide technology called “cookies”. These are small pieces of data that are placed on your hard disk drive when you access a website or a certain part of a website. Cookies help Sony understand which parts of its websites are the most popular, where Sony visitors are going, and how much time they spend there.
Sony uses cookies to study traffic patterns on its sites in order to improve website performance, to customise the user experience, and to better match the users’ interests and preferences. For example, Sony keeps track of the domains from which people visit, and also measures visitor activity on Sony websites. However, these tracking records are performed and maintained in ways that keep the data non-identifiable.
Cookies may also be used to recognise your computer next time you visit a website. This might save you time (e.g. by ensuring that you don not have to register again) or help you by customising your internet settings.
If you do not wish to accept cookies, they can be disabled by referring to your browser manufacturer’s instructions. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions. For example, in Internet Explorer, you can go to the Tools/Internet options/Security and Privacy Tabs to adapt the browser to your expectations.
Web beacons, also known as single pixel or clear gif technology, or action tags, may be used on our site. This technology show us which visitors clicked on key elements (such as links or graphics) on a Sony Web page or a Sony email. When you ask us to send you information on a promotion or a newsletter, we may use web beacons to establish which emails are actually opened. We use this information in order to optimise our content and services.
These Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies. If you don\'t want your cookie information to be associated with your visits to these pages, you can set your browser to turn off cookies. In Microsoft Outlook 2003 or similar, downloading of pictures can be turned off on a site by site bases.
I know what cookies are, and I\'ve heard a little about these so called web beacons, but I\'m not entirely sure what they constitute.
I did a search for them and a lot of shit about yahoo came up, most of it about them using web beacons to track emails and shit.
Like I said, I don\'t know how these things work, do they pose a security threat? How much info can they aquire by using these things? Is it in effect, a form of spyware, and should I continue with the product registration, or piss it off altogether?
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did you even read it?
put the tinfoil hat away
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yeah I did, did you read what I said?
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yes, it was delusional and paranoid
oh, and the man is out to get you
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Ok.
Well, as usual mm, you\'ve been a great help!!
Thanks
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cerby, will you marry me?
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It\'s why I never read the TOS.
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All of us have to click through these license agreements and disclaimers a multitude of times. What choice do we have?
I\'m more interested in understanding why you bought a minidisc player. Why is that format so appealing to people in the UK & Europe, while it\'s almost completely ignored and ridiculed in the United States? I don\'t know anyone who owns a minidisc player, and I can\'t remember when I\'ve actually seen one of the discs. I don\'t think I\'ve ever picked one up.
I hate proprietary standards, particularly Sony standards. I will never buy anything that requires a memory stick either.
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Originally posted by Coredweller
All of us have to click through these license agreements and disclaimers a multitude of times. What choice do we have?
I\'m more interested in understanding why you bought a minidisc player. Why is that format so appealing to people in the UK & Europe, while it\'s almost completely ignored and ridiculed in the United States? I don\'t know anyone who owns a minidisc player, and I can\'t remember when I\'ve actually seen one of the discs. I don\'t think I\'ve ever picked one up.
I hate proprietary standards, particularly Sony standards. I will never buy anything that requires a memory stick either.
Preach on brother! PREACH ON!
Down with the memory stick. Down with the mini-disc and f**k UMD movie releases.
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Originally posted by Coredweller
All of us have to click through these license agreements and disclaimers a multitude of times. What choice do we have?
I\'m more interested in understanding why you bought a minidisc player. Why is that format so appealing to people in the UK & Europe, while it\'s almost completely ignored and ridiculed in the United States? I don\'t know anyone who owns a minidisc player, and I can\'t remember when I\'ve actually seen one of the discs. I don\'t think I\'ve ever picked one up.
I hate proprietary standards, particularly Sony standards. I will never buy anything that requires a memory stick either.
Well, back in my academy years we were required to make our own audio recordings. MD walkmans with recording were the best alternative to professional audio recording hardware like DAT.
I switched from my MD player/recorder to an mp3 player just in autumn of 2004.
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Attention..................
[size=23] DO NOT SURF THE \'NET. THERE IS COOKIES . THE GOVERMENT WILL COLLECT INFORMATION ON YOU AND TRY TO FRAME YOU FOR THE SEX CRIME IN ANOTHER STATE. DO NOT SURF THE NET. [/SIZE]
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Fine, I\'ll browse it then.
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no soully
please disconnect and never come back
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I thought they didn\'t have internet in village huts mm...
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