The "content" side of Sony's management has too much pull, and top dogs at Sony don't see how they're letting this destroy the hardware side of the business... They are trying to market a high-end streamer, while they are doing their utmost to prevent the very same customers from digitizing legal and paid-for CD content to their Hard-drives and SMB storage...
Rootkits on music CDs, "walkman" software that can't "see" WAV music on local storage, TVs that can't read anything using USB ports and bad file format support on networked devices are just a few of the big big mistakes they've made. But this one is hilarious. They would sue everyone using the DMCA if they could, because ripping to FLAC/extracting the WAVs is supposed to be impossible due to their copy-protection schemes, yet the want to use those same ripped files to feed one of their devices.
Sony's phones are nice, but I won't ever touch the rest.