Hi, I just heard on Canadian radio of a fellow in Austin Texas who bought a music CD (didn't say which one) by Sony. The fellow happens to be a PC whiz and discovered that Sony had installed some software on his machine in a hidden location. The "victim" only found the software as part of his normal scan for spyware. The software apparently is designed to prevent you from copying the music CD. 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: http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/ I only mention it here because there was a thread maybe 1.5 years ago on this list on the same subject. Someone, I forget who and am too lazy to go searching for the thread, mentioned that the use of spyware on music CDs was a figment of the poster's imagination. Well, looks like it is here after all. /RF
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
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