Tag: VERSION

  • More Sony DRM news

    It looks like a list of Sony Music titles with the recent onerous DRM “rootkit” is being gathered. The Sunbelt blog has links to several lists. The EFF has a list here, there are two others though out there, here and here.

    Among other things, another post mentions the stupid things Sony-BMG leadership has had to say on the matter…

    “Most people, I think, don’t even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?”

    and, it’s also noted the installer can be bypassed by pressing the shift key when loading the cd (to skip autorun.) (Does telling this actually violate the DMCA – spreading information on circumventing copy protection?)

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