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Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code

Posted by timothy on from the but-the-beastie-boys-are-so-countercultural dept.

nfsilkey writes "After more than five years, the Beastie Boys have released a new album. It seems that the retail disc is bundled with a copy protection autoinstaller which silently silently puts itself onto the listener's computer. Many listeners are up in arms and some are venting their frustrations on the band's website."

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  1. This is a surprise? by HangingChad · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    When dealing with a morally corrupt industry I guess it shouldn't be a surprise when they do things like this. Repulsive.

    Wonder if their little spyware trojan would self-install on my Linux machine?

    Hehe.

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  2. Re:So for all Windows users by System.out.println() · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Word has it that some OS's provide this feature in the form of not having autorun.

    Maybe that's jsut a rumor.

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  3. Re:Illegal? by jmorris42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > OS X does not autorun cds either. Even if it did, it would prompt for
    > an admin password before it could install anything.

    Quoth the article:

    "It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems."

    Either you didn't realize that His Holiness (Mr. Jobs) would sell yer ass to the RIAA, you are in denial or of course the original story could be full of crap. Modern journalism being what it is and all that, it could happen.

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