Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code

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."

Comments

Re:Control

[WNight]

Mozilla just installed and worked. With flash and everything a click away. ut2004 just installed and worked.

Yahoo and MSN messengers don't but they aren't released for Linux. Gaim/Jabber/etc install very easily though. If you insist on specific windows apps then Linux will never be ready, if you insist on capabilities it's already there.

And as a test, give your mother a Windows XP CD and let her install it. The third time, after she's gotten a worm while trying to service pack it, if she gets that far, and while she tries to remove the spyware you get from using IE and Outlook, ask her if she thinks it's been easy. Mandrake and Fedora are no harder, Xandros is easier, Knoppix doesn't even need an install and it detects hardware I've had to fight with in Windows.

Re:Illegal?

[Zro Point Two]

after reading your sig, I've realized that there should be some sort of /. feature to Mod sigs. I'd be all over that.