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"I'm not a business major, but it's my guess that the solution to solving dwindling CD sales is not to piss off your customers." -- Dan Purpura (aka Neutron Zenith, 2005-10-31 (responding to an examination of the virus-like "rootkit" that some DRM-equipped Sony music CDs install on computers running Windows ("about 20 titles", according to The Washington Post) -- see also: the gritty technical details of detecting and dissecting it, and more information about the ) patch Sony issued to reveal the hidden components (but not remove them, which is still tricky), and what the cracking community is saying about the rootkit.

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The thing about this is that, from what I've read, Sony subcontracted for a Digital Rights Managment system from some small outfit in Wales, and put it on a few albums (probably as a trial balloon), and everyone is out to tar n feather them as if the Sony executives had anything but the faintest idea of how the DRM system actually works and the ramifications thereof.

It seems to me that people should actually be paying more attention to First 4 Internet Ltd. and whoever else they've subcontracted their flakey DRM system to. (Although F4i probably has already lost all of it's potential customers for DRM, but they might still survive on the back of their browser censorship software, ICA)

I noticed something amusing related to this topic. Some people are using the rootkit part of the "sony" DRM to hide cheat programs from the spyware that World of Warcraft uses to discourage that practice.

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