OTazMan was the first to send this along. Here are some more details in a comprehensible summary form: http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5926657.html From what's been reported publicly so far, it seems that this is a braindead product decision by SonyBMG and the company deserves all the criticism it's going to receive. But I wonder if SonyBMG's clumsy rootkit amounts to a "technological measure that effectively controls access to a (copyrighted) work." If so, why wouldn't removing it be a violation of section 1201(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Chalk this up as yet another reason for DMCA reform: http://www.politechbot.com/2005/10/06/progress-and-freedom/ -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sony installed DRM software that uses a rootkit to hide itself! Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:55:38 -0800 From: OTazMan <otazman@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> I have never heard of DRM protection that hides in a RootKit and isn't malware up until Sony just got done installing it. This needs to make the main stream media. Here is the link to the discovery: http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html The register with a summary article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/01/sony_rootkit_drm/ Pass it along, Ron _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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