Sony DRM Rootkit Hacked, Drawing Lawsuits

Rootkit-like copy protection software on some Sony music CDs is drawing lawsuits, and is now a vector for a Windows trojan.

A new copy-protection scheme Sony BMG has shipped on a selection of music CDs is beginning to draw lawsuits on behalf of music listeners around the world

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  1. JC at 11:21am 10th November 2005 Sony has officially made it safer to steal files over the net than to legally buy it!!

    They are just attempting to keep an inflated market price that is not at a free market equilibrium point. I bought my 1st CD in 1985 for $14.00, all other technology based industries have reduced cost to compete (what was a computer worth then verse now?) They just have too much EMPIRE to feed and need to realize that anyone with a few thousand bucks can start a recording label and produce and market their own (or other’s) content for much less. All they are protecting is a large marketing / production / distribution network that the internet can and has started to replace. My “Make / Buy” brake point cost is when the blank media + my opportunity cost (time and equipment deprecation) make it better to buy than make. At this point I would pay $4.00 to get a CD that I want with the artwork. I would still rip to my hard drive and use it where and how I want.

    Bottom line, they are a dying old technology and they know it, but they are using their shear size and power to continue to breath. Death is near, look at General Motors!!
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