Sony's "fix" for the copy protection software no g

[Xylob the Destroyer]

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DT2KF02.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down&chan=tc

their crazy web-site freaks when I try to copy & paste...........

[ROF]

This and the daily fallout from it is already being discussed.

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[GullyFoyle]

Even better.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15/1250229&from=rss

Deaths Hand writes "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.

So much for anti-piracy.

[AlecWest]

Worse than that. Britain's TheRegister.com reports that Sony's first recommended "fix" for XCP installs a CodeSupport ActiveX control that further compromises your system. According to The Register, there's a website set up at Princeton University that will check for the ActiveX control on your system. Unfortunately, if it finds it, there is no recommendation as to how to "safely" remove it. But, if you want to see if your system has been zapped with it, visit the website below (you must use Internet Explorer ... Mozilla/Netscape won't cut it):

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jhalderm/xcp/detect.html