Sony releases details of exchanging music CDs it shipped with the addled XCP copy-protection scheme, and now it appears XCP may have stolen open source code!
Just when you thought the public relations pit Sony BMG has dug for itself surrounding the XCP copy protection included on some music CD titles couldn’t get any deeper
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RSS1. Rootkit
2. Spyware
3. No warning of #1 or #2 in EULA
4. No uninstaller for #1 or #2
5. Denial on NPR re: #1 being a problem
6. Uninstaller for #1 was Late
7. Uninstaller for #1 was not Publicized
8. Uninstaller for #1 was Inconvenient to get
9. Uninstaller for #1 adds even worse ActiveX
10. News that Sony violated the (L)GPL
Now, Sony starts distributing .mp3 files of its own copyrighted content, shooting off both its own feet at once, plus those of its 52 artists, and to a lesser degree the rest of the entire music industry.
When will they learn? HOW could a single group of company executives and directors bring all this about, and not be (as far as we can tell) criminals?
Same goes for the MSM who refused to touch the story as long as possible, Amazon & all CD distributers who kept selling the bad titles, Ads by Google for promoting the use of programs to rip *protected* DVDs & CDs alongside reports of the severity of the problems, and so on and so on. This is absolutely unbelievable, yet it is all true, and still getting worse.
It's a bit reminiscent of Isaac Asimov's short story "The Machine Stops", except global society isn't supposed to break down quite like a machine - as it apparently is, to an alarming degree.