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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. Can't touch this by mtrisk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yet another reason to switch to Linux. These corporations aren't helping themselves, are they?

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  2. Re:DRM for what? by teknokracy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is why I love owning a Mac :D No viruses. No silly self-installing apps. A free world of music. And so on and so forth...

  3. Not in the US/UK by jlia · · Score: 1, Redundant
    From one of the linked sites:
    Update: Ian sez, "Hi, I'm not sure who posted re: Beastie Boys copy protection, but I just spoke with Mike D and their management and they wanted me to pass along that a) This is all territories except the US and UK -- US and UK discs do not have this protection on them; b) All EMI CDs are treated this way, theirs isn't receiving special treatment; c) They would have preferred not to have the copy protection, but weren't allowed to differ from EMI policy."
  4. /. punishment? by slickepott · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess the /. effect on their site is a quite big punishment? I wanted to read about angry listeners but hungry /. users got them first!

  5. Re:Does the band know or care..? by Collestonpie13 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    its not that there selling out they probably dont care that much they probably dont really think that its that big of a deal. Rememebr not everyone reads slahdot all day and is constantly up to date with how our digital rights are being constantly striped away..i think ignorance is more if the problem here than selling out.

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  6. Re:What the Hell by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That happens all the time on this site. The submissions page says "grousing about rejected submissions is Offtopic and usually gets moderated that way. It happens, don't take it personally". They get up to half a million viewers a day, and that happens often.

  7. Re:Oh, except on music CD's by Wiseleo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Won't the CDs with autorun malware be treated as data CDs anyway? The autoplay on music CDs would mean that the default music player will still start.

    Should work just fine.

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  8. Re:Does the band know or care..? by rasz · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Update: Ian sez, "Hi, I'm not sure who posted re: Beastie Boys copy protection, but I just spoke with Mike D and their management and they wanted me to pass along that a) This is all territories except the US and UK -- US and UK discs do not have this protection on them; b) All EMI CDs are treated this way, theirs isn't receiving special treatment; c) They would have preferred not to have the copy protection, but weren't allowed to differ from EMI policy."
    Oh my, so theirs isn't receiving special treatment ? Well it DOES, i will especially download this one from Kazza/torrent. I bought their albums in the past, but this one is gonna be a freebie. Someone has to show them.
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