Devaluing the Product Part II - Sony Music CDs Threaten PCs

[Jorge]

It has been revealed that some Sony Music CDs install a rootkit, a tool used by hackers to hide malicious code on a PC. Sony is using a rootkit to hide DRM files from users so they can't remove them. The problem is that the rootkit exposes your PC to hackers and will wreck your system if you try to remove it. The record companies have put malicious files on your PC and as this word spread will consumers be afraid to buy CDs?

Read the complete article (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/5887/Devaluing+the+Product+Part+II+-+Sony+Music+CDs+Threaten+PCs/)

[fleecy]

yet another reason not to buy- thanks jorge.

[gorphon]

what fools.

"hey, I've an idea. Let us further alienate our customers by furthering the invasion of their collective privacy- even going so far as to making their personal and private computers vulnerable to unaffiliated 3rd parties other than ourselves."

"By george, that is brilliant! you have a wonderful future in management ahead of you!"

whoever came up with this scheme knows just enough to be very dangerous.

[Excrement_Cranium]

Chocolate flavored cigarettes!

[que-em]

Don't expect Congress to be on the consumer's side.

You distribute a virus/spyware......illegal.
Big Business distributes virus/spyware.....legal

You take advantage of a legal loophole.....illegal
Big Business takes advantage of a legal loophole.....legal.

You defraud and mislead.....illegal.
Big Business defraud and mislead.....Smart business practices...and legal.

You involved in injuring or the death of another person.....illegal.
Big Business involved in injuring or the death of another person....legal.

You profit off the suffering of others....illegal.
Big Business profits off the suffering of others....legal.

Those are the rules to the game.

The upside of DRM is the more they push it on me the less guilty I feel when downloading that "free" software, music, and movie. We need a zeroguilt.com but its already taken....it redirects to a lose weight site. Throw some "I'm a drity pirate" with some funny graphics t-shirts up in here.

[VAMPYRE BLADE]

only way to remove that crap is formatting and most people outside of zeropaid and the p2p community cant barely install software on their pc let alone format and reinstall their software, they are the ones that will get screwed the hardest. i havent bought any cds since 1998, lol.

[axlman]

This is a bunch of crap! F**CK Sony!!!

It's like telling me what I can and cannot do on my PC! Thank God I'm my own Tech support! Oh, Well....I can't rememer the last time I bought a CD either! I'll leave the work to all Hackers and Crackers to get around these issues for us.

[mountain_rage]

That reminds me I never dissabled autoplay on my computer since install. Never know just in casse probably wont be getting a copyprotected cd on this computer.

[MP3Pr0]

I really think Sony should be SUED for this type of crap.

[Signa]

i agree, even if it doesnt go anywhere.

the fact is, unhappy customers always get an ear when it comes to big business because if the customers arent happy, they arent making money.

[Excrement_Cranium]

i agree, even if it doesnt go anywhere.

the fact is, unhappy customers always get an ear when it comes to big business because if the customers arent happy, they arent making money.


The new business model insists if the consumers aren't buying, there is something wrong with the consumer, not the product.

[Jared Moya]

this story is the best ever

[nonaste]

No. You're not quite right. A rootkit can be removed. Russinivich did it. Unfortunately, his methodology is too complicated except for a seasoned programmer. In time some genius will come up with a solution for the average user. And bless his soul.

[inoesomestuff]

first sueing its customers, now infecting their PCs
sony doesnt seem to be doing too well in the music business but still people buy their cds, when will they learn....