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Their fix is actually worse than the rootkit:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10053831/

Open Source code was used in the rootkit:

http://hack.fi/~muzzy/sony-drm/

http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity ... 51117.html


Looks like the people maintaining the GPL can get their panties in a bunch now.

Sony's f00ked:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... ived=False


Texas is p!ssed at 'em.

go get um i say

i hate big companies like this and have particularly always disliked sony sh!te

i specifically dont like having to agree to an EULA for a cd you already bought thats just insane

the whole thing just gets me in a tizzy

All you need is Scotch tape to beat their software:

http://informationweek.com/story/showAr ... =174400748

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Scotch tape, that is just awsome! I realy like that, makes me want to go out and buy one.

Side Point, While reading the artical, this stood out in my mind.

"After more than five years of trying, the recording industry has not yet demonstrated a workable DRM scheme for music CDs," concluded the Gartner analysts. "It will never achieve this goal as long as CDs must be playable by stand-alone CD players."

Does this mean that the best way to bypass music protection is to build a driver that treats the computers cd-rom as if it were a Stand Alone music player. The data that came out would still be digital, then just encode the stream to MP3.

I guess we'll find out when Windows Vista is released

They've p1ssed off Spitzer, the New York Attorney General:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Eliot_S ... 1133281904


Best part is--he's nailed them before so it looks like he has a very good chance of hitting them again

Teehehe:

http://www.newsinferno.com/storypages/1 ... 5~003.html


Now he's even more p!ssed.

Apparently, Sony has been doing this on other cd's with different software, too:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051208-5720.html

Sony settles in U.S.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,3902 ... 664,00.htm

The military and government still shows signs of being infected........

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11369

..........and the author says that Sony won't be sued? They'd better be

DRM to maybe be regulated in its method of application:

http://www.computerworld.com/securityto ... 93,00.html

It is final now, sony lost 2 more suites to go though.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513-6075370.html

Sigh, do they ever learn?

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives ... l#00001263

It seems that Sony's fingerprint reader uses a rootkit.