Klonk Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:52:34 -0800 veschprigt mroktar "Rory Filer" <rfiler@SierraWireless.com> [re: [Yello] DRM on Commercial Music CDs]:
Our blogger eventually had to resort to manual removal and in the process, the software did something to the registry which prevented the PC from accessing the CDROM drive. The whole story is written up on his blog at: ...
This has been all over the nerd news for the last few days. And it is far worse than that... the Sony RootKit punches such a hole in a winders pc that there now is in the wild a trojan that uses that same RootKit to pwn the machine. In short, Sony's greed now DIRECTLY enables winders pc infection. Oh, and the best part of all is that this DRM is very easily bypassed. Here's linkage to good articles. The comments below the articles provide genuinely valuable insight as well as the standard great comedy. IT: Trojan Using Sony DRM Rootkit Spotted http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/11/10/1615239.shtml?tid=172&tid=233 Your Rights Online: California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/11/10/0024259.shtml?tid=233&tid=17 Apple: Former Apple Exec Speaks Against DRM http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/11/10/1948237.shtml?tid=176&tid=1 --gcr