Tag: DRMS

  • More on the Sony XCP DRM (Rootkit)

    Freedom-to-tinker.com has some good detailed analysis on Sony’s (mis) use of GPL software in their XCP DRM (Digital Rights Management) software that’s been at the center of somewhat of a firestorm the last couple months. DRMS was the source of the code that was allegedly misappropriated, but the puzzle was why a Digital Rights Management removal bit of software was used in Digital Rights Management software to begin with…

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  • More on Sony’s copyright infringement with their DRM Rootkit

    “What a tangled web…” there is more today at freedom-to-tinker on the evidence that Sony (and or first4internet), have infringed on copyrighted code in their DRM software XCP which has been at the middle of quite a bit of controversy the last few weeks. Most of the coverage has been on some of the cloaking capabilities, the security vulnerabilities and the uninstaller vulnerabilities… but it looks fairly obvious that at least some GPL or LGPL code has been used without abiding by the terms of the GPL/LGPL

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