sony's rootkit DRM software

[francis]

anyone hear about this? pretty interesting.

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/1 ... ights.html

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/1 ... aking.html

http://www.boston.com/business/technolo ... l_spyware/

[Pstehley]

yeah.. I actually just heard about that yesterday.. how fucked up is that.. apparently you aren't even allowed to make copies of your own music to preserve cd's... or upload to your ipod... I have a feeling it won't last and a class action law suit is on it's way.. you can't just trash someone's computer.. ya know... and apparently, there's no easy way to get this junk off your computer (that will automatically load even if you're just listening to it in a cd rom drive, like at work...)

messed up indeed...

[Cleantone]

Not to mention that is leaves you suseptible to viruses. There are already reports of virus infections that were intentionally aimed at the protection loophole this software creates. At least thats what I heard. The dumbest part of it all is that you can still get around the protections if you know what your doing. Whatever!