Sony CD's Unsafe with virus like software, Alert for everyone (alt.music)

2005/11/04 10:39

Don't insert any Sony CD into your PC with XCP (Extended copy protect)
Likely to include many CD's produced since March 2005

http://antivirus.about.com/b/a/215400.htm

Information for the technical
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/s...tal-rights.html
Read the posted comments at the bottom

From the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4400148.stm

This is very serious, it seems Sony has broken the law.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/03/secfocus_drm/

You cannot uninstall the software at present as it kills windows, although
software to sort it out is likely to be available soon.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/01/sony_rootkit_drm/

Emi recalling some CD's
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/29/emi_recalls_drm_cd/

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