List of Sony CD's with root-kit

[Jorge]

As mentioned before, Sony-BMG has been using copy-protection technology called XCP in its recent CDs. You insert your CD into your Windows PC, click "agree" in the pop up window, and the CD automatically installs software that uses rootkit techniques to cloak itself from you. Sony-BMG has released a "patch" that supposedly "uncloaks" the XCP software, but it creates new problems. But how do you know whether you've been infected? It turns out Sony-BMG has deployed XCP on a number of titles, in variety of musical genres, on several of its wholly-owned labels. EFF has confirmed the presence of XCP on the following titles (each has a data session, easily read on a Macintosh, that includes a file called "VERSION.DAT" that announces what version of XCP it is using). If you have one of these CDs, and you have a Windows PC (Macs are totally immune, as usual), you may have caught the XCP bug.

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[Auggie2k]

Typical, they release a patch to "solve" a problem and it just fooks it up further.

Hope this inspires them to rip that rubbish out of their titles.

[notbob]

for the love of god put the fucking actual story link in the forum post

i don't care about your fucking 1 paragraph plagiarism story on the front page

[kokanezub]

yes im thinking about a mac..to bad i find them to dam slow

[DigitalJunkie]

It doesn't matter which OS, DRM is DRM! If they designed & intend to learn about your habits so they could sell you later, they are part of the Spyware or Adware no matter which way you look at it. Worst yet if they are designed to get through behind your firewall, they (companies, their employees or bad hackers) can do many more things on your pc in the future. By then, damages are done already! You need to stay away from it, in the first place. Can you trust them?

[alwayswondering]

I have heard (Only heard not read) that a few of the companies like Music Match and I think Real Player? Have some type of bug in their software that reads the amount of music files that you have in a library and sends the information back to the companies so that they can see what new material you might be downloading, from what I have “Heard” if your music library grows by a certain percentage over a period of time then they will put you on some kind of list.

My thoughts: How could they prove that you didn’t buy the CD’s and then sell them later on? I think it is impossible for them to do something like that.

[DigitalJunkie]

That list maybe just a list for their email campaign, ie. more spam for your email in-box!

[moneoa]

ugh