Sony hit with first lawsuit:
http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-0097422.html
Trojan attempts to exploit rootkit:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/sony_drm_trojan/
--What a smart marketing move prior to Christmas
Sony/BMG situation escalates
by TD 7 Replies latest jw friends
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Eyebrow2
Excellent.
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VM44
Dr. Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's global digital business division, said the following on NPR:
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
"Sony digital boss - rootkit ignorance is bliss" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/sony_drm_who_cares/
Here is the Class Action Complaint: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/daily/graphics/ca_complaint_110805.pdf
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TD
Here I've been following this situation as an interested, but disimpassioned neutral observer. --Not any more
This morning, my wife told me that her iTunes software was not working properly.
Guess what?
She had recently purchased a Neil Diamond CD (Yuck!) Apparently Sony owns Columbia and now I have this crap installed on a home computer.
To me, this is clearly a case where the cost of undoing the damage far exceeds what would be redressed by a refund of the purchase price.
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Jordan
I hope Sony learn from this, and stop trying to attack the casual filesharers and copiers, and go for the huge filesharing groups and CD pirates instead...
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VM44
TD,
To see if you have the Sony BMG rootkit installed on your computer, create a file beginning with $sys$, like $sys$td.txt
The rootkit hides files beginning with $sys$, so if you cannot see the file you just created, the rootkit is installed.
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VM44
Sophos has released software that will remove the "hiding" feature of the rootkit. Download it at this address. --VM44
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TD
Kudos to Sophos. I knew I liked the Brits!