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Another Jerkoff Company
I had noticed in a newsgroup that I frequent
alt.comp.freeware
that several posts had been sent in about Sony CD's. I never bothered reading them as it didn't seem to be something I was interested in.
Just today I got my Langalist newsletter in my e-mail and guess what I read:
7) Sony's Baloney
Hi Fred, Are you aware of this. Sounds liked a good idea gone
really bad. Thanks, Wayne
FYI, the newest Sony "Digital Rights Management"
system on audio CDs apparently installs a "rootkit"
that attempts to hide itself from detection and
intercepts all calls to the cd drive of your PC. The
rootkit appears to have several vulnerabilities in and
of itself and these are introduced even on a fully
patched and secured windows system.
As reported by The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/03/secfocus_drm/
Hi, Fred ---- I'll be eagerly awaiting your comments in the
LangaList on this Sony
rootkitting exploit:
Sony Attacks PC's Worldwide With DRM Rootkit
http://wizbangblog.com/archives/007480.php
Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights
Management Gone Too Far
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
--=Regards, Morton A. Goldberg
Many others wrote in, as well. (Thanks to all!) Lots more:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sony+drm+rootkit
Yes, it's a terrible idea; using a Rootkit (
http://www.google.com/search?q=rootkit ) for digital rights management is
overkill, if ever there was such.
Hostile and aggressive copy protection has always, always, always
backfired on the vendors using it. Example: Lotus1-2-3 was once one of the
most widely used pieces of software in the world. Then they instituted a
ridiculous "three installs and you're out" copy protection program where
you'd be locked out on the fourth install, even if the reinstalls were
totally valid ones by the original purchaser on his own machine, using the
original disks. And this was back in the early days of PCs when it wasn't
uncommon to have to reformat a system every 3-6 months. Didn't matter to
Lotus: There was no appeal, no legal workaround, no option: If your drive
crashed, or you bought a new PC, or whatnot, you got three installs,
period, and then had to buy a new copy of the very expensive software.
Guess what happened? Users either felt justified in using copy-protection
cracking tools so they could access the software they'd paid for; and/or
flocked to Microsoft's Excel, which wasn't as good (the macro language
wasn't as well-developed then, for instance) but which avoided the hassles
of Lotus' draconian copy-protection scheme. Lotus' fortunes changed soon
thereafter, and it withered to a fraction of its former size and clout.
Note to Sony: Those who do not study history....
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And so it goes.......Big Business is constantly screwing up royally. Lotus1-2-3 used to be a big player, but no longer after they pissed off their software users. Sony is playing that same game right now, and if you read the previous post you'll see that Norton just lost me as a customer.
These guys never seem to learn! Thanks to Fred Langa and The Register for keeping us informed and a big Blog MyyyyyAsssss thank you to the alt.comp.freeware poster that brought this to my attention in the first place.