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[wispfox]

Via soaring_phoenix, Sony CDs come with hidden rootkits, and DRM is now being used as a competitive economic weapon -- not as an anti-piracy tool.

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[uberjay.livejournal.com]

Grr.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Quite. And nice icon. :)

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

I am dancing like a monkey!!!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*laughing* Yes. Yes, you are. :)

[randysmith]

I've read a suggestion on a different list that you can make your opinions of this known to Sony via:

http://www.sonymusic.com/about/feedback.cgi

I do not vouch for the correctness of this URL, YMMV, No warrantee ... etc :-}.

[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Message sent.

You'd think they'd've learned from the abject failure of the pay-per-view DVD player.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Regardless of your willingness to vouch, thanks. :)

[jedi-diplomat.livejournal.com]

To the first article, wow! I wonder how long Sony and others have been doing this? After all, most users won't even know how to use a rootkit, let alone have all that software to get rid of the hidden files and find out what they're going to what programs. Grrrr...

[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you read joedecker, but the day after you posted this he posted a Washington Post blog (http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/sony_raids_hack.html) which is based on your first link (and is more accessable to us layfolks ;P). Go Go Gadget Int0rw3b!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I do read him, although I didn't follow his link because I thought it'd be the same thing. :)

Apparently, FWIW, Universal does this, too (http://techdirt.com/articles/20051102/103241_F.shtml)