The Sony DRM virus
The following article gets a bit technical, but it demonstrates just how easily malware can be installed on a windows PC, even when the user is a techie.This Article also points out, just how YOUR...
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I think I'm going to boycott Sony, and refuse to buy any of their products. Who's with me?
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I'm with you! It's hard enough to clean up the crap that gets downloaded onto my comptuer already - why should something I PAID for make it harder??
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From letters.washingtonpost.co...53D0FF5B10 Quote:Sony to Suspend Making Antipiracy CDs. Stung by continuing criticism, the world's second-largest music label, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, promised...
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Quote:temporarily suspend They will never learn. The fact of the matter is all these so called anti piracy measures have no affect on real pirates. But they do affect genuine law abiding people, who...
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I was reading on another forum that the Sony rootkit contains a number of Free Open Source Software code items, such as the CODECs for FAA and other audio and video formats. But that these code items...
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Quote:these code items have had the GNU GPL headers removed, making the use of these code item illegalThat's just stupid. What in blue hell were they thinking?
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They probably arn't thinking, I'll try to find the article, but this bloke who wrote it sounds like a real galah. I think it's mentioned in the articles I posted links to, but this bloke seems to have...
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From arstechnica.com/news.ars/...-5605.htmlFrom the AG's press release on the suit: "Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on...
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Quote:Sony's controversial DRM technology - which installs rootkit-style software when users play Sony BMG CDs on Windows PCs - can be defeated easily with nothing more than a piece of masking tape,...
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I agree that it wouldn't stop the large-scale pirates who burn and sell copies, even to other countries. But lots of teenagers copy CDs for their friends, and that's who's Sony's going after. The...
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Quote: I agree that it wouldn't stop the large-scale pirates who burn and sell copies, even to other countries.But lots of teenagers copy CDs for their friends, and that's who's Sony's going after....
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I said that their DRM virus is aimed at kids giving copies to their friends. How does that mean I don't get it?? You think their anti-copying code was aimed at someone else?
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Quote:I'm just saying that the music industry's target criminals are age 12-21. School kids think nothing of copying a CD for their friends... and they listen to a lot more music, and have a lot more...
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I remember 20-something years ago when the music industry freaked out over the cheap availability of cassette recorders. "These things are going to ruin the industry!" they cried. Needless to say,...
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In the end governements around the world, at least in western Counties, agreed to pay the Music companies - the money goes into a jopint fund - a special tax on all cassetes sold.The RIAA music...
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They were in the wrong to place such software on a cd knowing full well the potential for damage. I hope they get sued outa business.
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