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Story: Sony plans patch after DRM rootkit row
Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 5 November 2005, 11:35 PM)
Sony's offer to let you download a patch to their "rootkit" really is totally unacceptable. Those CDs are still out there and still virulent.
Years or decades from now (I've got lots of CDs over 10 years old) your grandchild is going to pop one of these carriers of the "Sony Flu" into their new computer running a still-to-come version of Windows and what do you think is going to happen?
Well, Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure found out when he popped it into a machine running Windows Vista that the Sony CD "breaks the operating system spectacularly." Who's going to know how to fix it in 2020? Already most of the "weblinks" on my so-called "Enhanced CDs" (provided by these same recording studios) get "404 Not Found" errors only a year or two after release.
Keeping these still-infectious CDs around on your shelf is like keeping a live hand-grenade as a WW2 souvenir. Just hope your kids don't play with it.
The only acceptable solution would be for Sony to recall every one of these virulent CDs out there and take them out of circulation.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Sony plans patch after DRM rootkit row
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"We want to make sure we allay any unnecessary con... Paul Williams -
So is everything hidden via $sys$ or is there... Anonymous -
After this, I will no longer buy ANYTHING with the... Anonymous
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Sony can forget about me ever knowingly buying a p... Anonymous
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They got caught sneaking this in, who knows w... No Trust in Sony
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Sony have just shot themselves in the foot!
I run... ozz scott
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Pretty products, pretty crap business ethics. Anonymous
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I thought unauthorised modification of a comp... Steve B
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Sony's offer to let you download a patch to their... Anonymous -
I actually had this problem with my computer.. act... Anonymous
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I've got the non-functioning CD problem. I'v... Al Fleagle
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It is hard to understand how Sony can manufacture... Anonymous
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One must ponder if it is not time to force First... pgn
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I read the whole blog. I will never buy sony... Anonymous
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I will not buy any thing with sony name on it Bob Brown
