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EFF lifts curtain on new act of Sony DRM farce

...some of the record label's CDs. The danger is associated with copy-restriction software included on some Sony discs created by a company called... Read more

7 December, 2005 by John Borland

ICANN still rules the Internet roost

...Meanwhile, SonyBMG continues to try to weather the fallout from its surreptitious copy-restriction rootkit, as conditions grow more stormy with the emergence of a... Read more

23 November, 2005 by John McCormick

Sony plans patch after DRM rootkit row

...it will also prevent virus writers from cloaking their work using the copy-restriction tools. The record label and First 4 Internet will post a... Read more

3 November, 2005 by John Borland

New York judge passes Sony rootkit settlement

...to computers that had played one of dozen Sony CDs, which had copy-restriction software included. In the settlement, Sony has agreed to stop producing... Read more

9 January, 2006 by John Borland

Rootkits: A sign of things to come

...that a black marker or tape is also effective for stopping such copy restriction. Of course, I may have just violated the DMCA, by explaining... Read more

13 December, 2005 by Jonathan Yarden

Sony outlines rootkit CD recall plan

...program that will allow music buyers to exchange recently purchased CDs with copy-restriction for new discs and MP3s. The company is responding to widespread... Read more

21 November, 2005 by John Borland

Sun rises on open DRM

A fully open source and patent-free copy-restriction technology has been launched by Sun, as a way of bypassing... Read more

22 August, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft and Apple's interoperability tussle

Microsoft's battle to get the iPod to talk to the Xbox gives a valuable insight into industry politics Read more

4 November, 2005 by Daniel Terdiman

Amazon users campaign against Sony's copy-restriction technology

...the points of buying a CD if you get extra grief.'" The copy-restriction technologies on the Van Zant CD have not only been criticised... Read more

3 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Sony CD protection sparks spyware row

...some inside the security software community. The passionate response underlines the power copy restriction retains to inflame emotions and spark bitter debate, despite the growing... Read more

2 November, 2005 by John Borland

Sony offers to replace rootkit CDs

Customers who have bought a Sony CD that contains rootkit-like copy-restriction technolgies that leaves their PCs vulnerable to attack will be offered... Read more

16 November, 2005 by Karen Gomm

Sony suspends production of DRM 'rootkit' CDs

...Entertainment said on Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-restriction technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to... Read more

12 November, 2005 by Joris Evers

Trojan horses targeting Sony DRM rootkit found

...file with $sys$ in its name is automatically cloaked by Sony's copy-restriction code, making it invisible on computers which have used CDs carrying... Read more

10 November, 2005 by Tom Espiner

EMI: We don't use rootkits

...not working with First 4 Internet, the UK company that created the copy-restriction software for Sony, although it is trialling other content-protection software... Read more

7 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Sony DRM rootkit 'legal in the UK'

...BMG is unlikely to face legal consequences in the UK for the copy-restriction technology it is using on a music CD. The DRM software... Read more

4 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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