[Gllug] Sony Protected CD's apparently installing rootkits...

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Fri Nov 18 14:58:40 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 14:50 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Simon Wiehe wrote:
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051118/tc_nm/sonybmg_opensource_dc
> 
> <http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/> has many more details on
> findings of code from FAAC (LGPL), mpglib (LGPL), probably mpg123 (weird
> attribution-contact- author-before-using-in-business license, oops, Sony
> are in violation even of that), the VideoLAN project (GPL!) and who
> knows what else in there.
This GPL whatsit sounds like a damned Commie conspiracy to me!
In my day we would have dragged the whippersnappers behind the hunt.

Angry of Mayfair

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