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Sony Music CD's Contain Mac DRM Software Too
brjndr writes "A MacInTouch poster has found that certain Sony CD's also contain a smaller extra partition for 'enhanced' content. Running one of the applications found within this partition installs kernel extensions containing DRM software by SunnComm. In Sony's defense you're told what is being installed within a EULA which pops up when the program is loaded. Thankfully we all read our EULAs completely."
a request for administration rights Oh, yeah I love to have to be root to play a CD...
Man, actually buying online music is starting to look more and more like S&M. I can hardly wait 'till they come out with CDs that come with shackles that have to be worn while listening to the CD.
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A client of mine once got an email instructing telling her that a virus had been installed on her system. She was to immediately locate a file (I think it was COMMAND.COM) and delete it, which would remove the hazard.
She forwarded it on to me (just in case I needed it, you see) and then sent me a second email because the person who sent her the message had trashed their system, and she thought I was about to do same.
When it comes to stupidity among users, I will believe anything
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Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
When can we expect Linux support? I'd like to think that Linux is big enough now to demand proper support from Sony, just like Windows and OSX.
Oh christ, you just reminded me of something-- a great recollection....
//e had some lame-ass program to "meet the machine", it had routines to deal with typists who cheated by using l's for ones s and o's for zeros... if you did this, it went into this little diatrabe about how "to a computer, a 0 and an o are very different things"
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Snort...
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
2) is obviously a fat little squirrel. I like to draw squirrels a little thinner: 1xf
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
They could go work at Diebold. /ducks
Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts.
/me skims parent post
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I don't know what's funnier: Your post, or that it's moderated Informative.
No, he forgot to mention how many people here think it's a piece of shit and refuse to buy it... while anxiously waiting for their torrent to complete.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
It only needs to send a Sony CD as a present to your senator.
There you are, staring at me again.
...and it runs much snappier!
Do not be alarmed. This is only a test.
The RIAA has credibility? I must have missed that memo.
Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia)
from the eff
Perhaps this DRM is your punishment for listening to Ricky Martin and Celine Dion?
That's not exactly stupidity. Maybe ignorance or just being uninformed is a better term to use. A LONG time back, my dad was trying to free up disk space on our DOS machine, which basically meant going through the drive deleting files we didn't use or that we didn't need, etc. It all went pretty good, until he looked in c:\ and saw command.com, thought "we never run THAT program!", and deleted it.
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After a short while, typing in your password becomes as much of an unconscious acticity as pressing "OK" on a dialog box. I think we need blinking lights, horns, mandatory timers, and permission from your sysadmin before you can do anything stupid.
This is why I still use su instead of sudo. There's just something about typing in the root password and handing over the keys to my box that makes my sphincter pucker.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Actually, there IS no autorun on Mac OS X.
And see, that is exactly what bugs me about OS X, and why Windows is easier to use. On OS X, I stick a CD in, and it shows up on my desktop but doesn't autorun. iTunes pops up, and allows me to rip the CD by clicking on a button.
This is completely backwards to me. I like it when Windows autoruns the CD, starting up the elegant "Let's display hidden windows" WMP and having me search around for my CD. (Autorun also allows the CD to install programs in the background, whithout bothering me.) And if Autorun is disabled, finding a CD is as easy as clicking on the Start, finding My Computer and clicking on it, and then finding the icon for the CD player and clicking then on that. On OS X, I just stare at the mounted CD and it doesn't do anything.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.