ALERT!!! Sony's DRMed CD installs malware in your system!

[ChaoofNee]

Wow.

"If you think the Sony rootkit is bad, check out the accompanying EULA! From the EFF's summary: 'If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home. ... Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice. ... Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling.'"

[kedawa]

Looks like MS has deemed it malware.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1886122,00.asp

The plot thickens.
http://www.security.ithub.com/articl.../165201_1.aspx

Hopefully some good will come of this, and people will wise up and realize how bad DRM really is.

[ChaoofNee]

"According to this Dutch article the Sony DRM software (or rootkit, if you may prefer) contains code from the LAME MP3 encoder project, which is licensed under the LGPL. However, the source code has not also been distrbuted, hence breaching the license. Here is an english translation of the page." So apparently Sony violates your privacy to create a backdoor onto your machine using code that violates an Open Source license. This story just keeps getting stranger.

HAHAH! This is awesome.

[kedawa]

I really hope Sony gets put through the meat grinder for all this.
An example needs to be made.

[Josh]

Stop buying major label CDs people.

Please. This machine doesn't need your help anymore.

[Mr-K]

I found a list of albums that are 'blacklisted' so to speak:

Trey Anastasio - Shine
Celine Dion - On ne Change Pas
Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
Our Lady Peace - Healthy in Paranoid Times
Chris Botti - To Love Again
Van Zant - Get Right With the Man
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Acceptance - Phantoms
Susie Suh - Susie Suh
Amerie - Touch
Life of Agony - Broken Valley
Horace Silver Quintet - Silver's Blue
Gerry Mulligan - Jeru
Dexter Gordon - Manhattan Symphonie
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity
The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s
Dion - The Essential Dion
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Ricky Martin - Life
My Morning Jacket - Z
Santana - All That I Am
Sarah McLachlan - Bloom Remix Album

Besides the two jazz albums you really shouldn't be listening to any of this anyway.