Re: [Fsfe-uk] Sony DRM CD installs rootkit - and phones home!

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:52:38PM +0100, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> This is a follow-up to the earlier story, which adds the info that the 
> rootkit 
> contacts a Sony server (according to Sony, this is only in order to load new 
> artwork...)
> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloaking.html

Sony stops making anti-piracy CDs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4430608.stm

I'm sure this isn't the first time it's happened. I have a vague memory
of Sony giving up with copy-protection a year or so ago, but that
obviously didn't work out for them. *sigh*.

Cheers,

Dominic.

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