Re: [MLUG] Sony DRM Rootkit Controversy

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
>
> > Controversy
> > http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html


Slashdot has a new one on this:

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/07/1221209

Sony Rootkit Phones Home

Interesting fact:

  the DRM can be bypassed simply by renaming your favourite ripping
  program with "$sys$" at the start of the filename and ripping the CD
  using this file, which is now undetectable even by the Sony DRM.

Mike

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