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

Tue Nov 1 13:15:23 UTC 2005

On 1/11/2005, "Junior Williamson" <junior at acetechno.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

>It seems the DRM system used by Sony on it's CD in this case (apparently
>written by a company called First 4 Internet) automatically installs a nasty
>rootkit which is very difficult to remove.

It's part of Sony's catch-up campaign to force Apple to open the iPod
to non-iTunes sellers.

I stopped buying Sony crap a long time ago because of the stupid DRM
bullshit.  Their Minidisc software is possibly the worst UI I've ever
seen.
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