Big brother is watching... http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
Oh, my, god... The more i read that article, the more pissed off i became. They have absolutely no right to install that software... I hadn't heard about that one yet.:evil::evil::evil::evil::evil:
Oh, even better... this lovely rootkit allows you to cheat in world of warcraft.... http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/34
What the heck! Don't all these stupid anti-piracy things just cause more problems then they control piracy?
Nice article, although it was a little hard to follow the technical details. Now I'm paranoid about my own system.
another good reason why buying CD from shops is silly idea especially with SONY/BMG label... MP3 all the way mate...
bloody hell, last time i buy a sony cd...this kinda of stuff warrants other manners of obtaining these songs, not that i have, or plan on...but still,.......i recently purchases an emi cd, and they too have copy protection on them, limiting them to 3 copies..... i checked my regit in the places he said, and luckly found nothing couldnt sony be sued over this?
actually, many things have a thing called "shrink-wrap licensing agreements" and opening the wrapper is an agreement to their conditions. I had something like this happen when I bought the latest Foo Fighters cd. It had DRM that loaded with autorun which scrambled the songs when you ripped it yourself. The cd itself wouldn't play on a PC unless you downloaded a media player specifically for it. It took some working around, but I disabled the DRM and ripped myself a copy at 192 kbps. Some stranger installing this on your pc would probably be illegal... but the user does it themselves. You buy the cd, and you put it in the pc. You agree to the software install and EULA that pops up, mostly without reading it. Sure it's sneaky, but I don't see how it's illegal. But I'm no lawyer...
The only point I could see if you wanted to sue would be that the EULA is misleading, and doesn't express the magnitude or abilities of the software to be installed, akin to Spyware. But good luck suing yourself. This is the kind of thing that class action suits are for, not for any monetary compensation on your part, but to punish the offending company.
Sorry to bump a thread that's a couple weeks old. But Sony announced today that they are pulling the current version of the copy protection from store shelves. In case anyone is interested: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/16/HNsonypullscds_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/11/16/HNsonypullscds_1.html
and they are offering some software for people to get rid of it too i think...maybe it will get rid of that but put something else on it
