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More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the to-much-to-believe dept.

A couple of days ago we posted a story about Sony DRM installing a rootkit. Since then we have seen many more stories on the subject that I thought were worth sharing. manno gave us a link to the inquirer and salemnic sent us a page from the washington post. smallfries gave us one from PC Pro. It's nice to see this story not getting lost in the cracks since the implications are gigantic.

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  1. Russinovich's Take by sp1nl0ck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mark Russinovich's blog has a lot of detail about this particular package, including some info on how to get rid of it...

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  2. Re:Never fear, Slashdot is here! by Lothsahn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Of all the "dupes" that Slashdot can post, I'm personally glad for this one (it's not really a dupe as it provides extra information).

    We're losing our rights, and the more media attention that BS like this gets, the better.

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  3. Re:Hope it catches on by Dan+Hayes · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Civ4 does have it, but to get round it you can use Daemon Tools and a little utility called SafeDisk4 Hider (as it uses the latest version that Daemon Tools doesn't support yet). Or at least, so I've heard...

    The game itself is well worth the hassle though.

  4. Re:Yes, this is bad by PhilHibbs · · Score: 0, Redundant
    but any reason to sue over this is good id say
    I totally disagree. Blizzard have no right to sue anyone but me on the grounds of what software I choose to run on my machine. I am as outraged at that suggestion as I would be if Sony sued Bram Cohen because I had used BitTorrent to copy a Van Zant album.