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Article: Inside the Spyware Scandal -- Part 2
mouser:
Inside the Spyware Scandal -- Part 2
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The "rootkit" on Sony BMG CDs was meant to prevent consumers from disabling anti-piracy software. It didn't stop one group.
This article -- the cover story in Technology Review's May/June 2006 print issue -- has been divided into three parts for presentation online. This is part 2; part 1 appeared on Tuesday, May 16, and part 3 will appear on Thursday, May 18.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16879&ch=infotech
Gothi[c]:
Meh, sony has no excuse. Shipping a rootkit with retail software is unacceptable, no matter what their so called motives were.
"We wanted to prevent people from copying music, so now we can control all computers that ever played a sony cd...."
overkill much?
It's a plot to take over the world! :D
DRM is pointless anyway. as long as music can be played and listened to, it can be copied.
f0dder:
F-Secure are evil! They're reverse engineering commercial software and violating EULAs!!!111! one one. :-*
Gothi[c]:
;) f0dder
f0dder:
Sorry, couldn't help it.
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