On Monday, October 31, alert users discovered that Sony BMG is using copy-protected CDs to surreptitiously install its digital rights management technology onto PCs. You don't have to be ripping the CD, either--just playing it from your CD-ROM drive triggers the installation. The software installs itself as a root kit, which is a set of tools commonly used to make certain files and processes undetectable, and they're the favored tool of crackers who are, as Wikipedia puts it, attempting to "maintain access to a system for malicious purposes." In fact, root kits are often classified alongside Trojan horses. And Mark Russinovich, who created a root-kit detection utility and was one of the first to blog about the Sony intrusion, discovered another little gem when he tried to remove the DRM drivers. It broke his computer--disabling his CD drive.
I had installed a few sony products, but it reinstalled a few things that i thought were fishy, anyway afterwards my computer crashed and disabled my CD-Rom causing all sorts of mayhem.
Paranoia coming true is scary...
Can it be removed?
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Too old for this shit. But still luvin it
this is where my knowledge for computers ends im afraid ive been told that the worst case scenario they can keep viruses/trojan hidden from virus scanners.
Nov-07-2005 00:24
eRRaTiK
g0t milk?
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
surely that sh*t ain't legal.
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Nov-07-2005 00:41
00soups00
cruzin
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Melbourne
reformat your pc.. that will do the trick
moral of the story
never buy music from sony
Nov-07-2005 00:42
eRRaTiK
g0t milk?
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
but their psp pwns!
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Nov-07-2005 00:49
narcism
faithless fangirl
Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Let go of my mind
quote:
Originally posted by 00soups00
never buy music from sony
but but it contributes to maxi's retirement package
quote:
surely that sh*t ain't legal.
thats what i thought
Nov-07-2005 01:01
pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion
Registered: Jul 2002
Location:
Re: Sony/BMG
and the big companies wonder why we turn to the www for our music stupid stupid stupid fvcks. and i bet the copy protection on it is about as successful as the sony CD i ripped the other day.
treat your PC like a temple kids. always be aware of what youre sticking into it.
whilst i do not advocate piracy at all (i buy everything that i sample illegally & enjoy) it really is great to see us humble consumers bringing the greedy, malicious fvcks to their knees. hahaha, like DVD-region coding. oh, thats being stopped now is it? take that you stupid cvnts.
youre never gonna get a copy-protected piece of music or software. the sooner they realise that the better. how about putting effort into providing excellent products at a reasonable price, in a non market-segregating kinda way?
so fuck you sony, WB & all other companies that are crying like lil bitches since we usurped their power base.
//rant
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Nov-07-2005 01:20
A.J.
Back from the dead
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Sydney
So basically they are untertaking a form of corporate hacking?
Dicks!
Nov-07-2005 01:55
Nsonic
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2004
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by A.J.
So basically they are untertaking a form of corporate hacking?
Dicks!
In a meeting at sony....
"so..whats our next technological advance to wow the world?"
"well, weve got the psp and ps3... how bout we do something new with cds?"
"like what?"
"i dunno, put some sneaky stuff to make it kill the computers"?
"omglol, win!"
isnt this one of those things that could call for some sort of..legal settlement?
Nov-07-2005 05:10
DJ_Ballistic
Nu-NRG Addict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
IBM started that shit when they made a virus to stop people copying their Operating System, i do believe it was considered illegal back then, and would still be nowdays,
Sony/BMG
stupid stupid stupid fvcks. and i bet the copy protection on it is about as successful as the sony CD i ripped the other day.
