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By David Rothman

With a media-oriented guy in charge, Howard Stringer, will Sony place Hollywood’s demands over innovation? Will Sony keep giving us more Libries–DRM-hobbled machines that flop in the marketplace and embarrass the company? Will Sony go for proprietary technology as often as possible? Or will Sony learn, as suggested by its belated willingness to let its portable music players work with MP3s? Don’t hold your breath. The idiots apparently still reign. AP says Sony has demoted the outspoken Ken Kutaragi, the “Father of the PlayStation”–apparently for criticizing Sony’s consensus culture and its fixation on DRM and proprietary approaches.

 
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