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Sony Music CD's Contain Mac DRM Software Too

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-one-is-safe dept.

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."

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  1. bondage by heatdeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:bondage by Mistshadow2k4 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey! Even we aren't that cruel. Bondage is fun, this crap isn't. Leave us kinksters out of this, please.

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  2. Re:Why yes, I give my admin password out on reques by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny
    should throw up *some* sort of red flag

    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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  3. Linux port? by SnowZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Memories... by way2trivial · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh christ, you just reminded me of something-- a great recollection....

    My original //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"
      Snort...

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  5. Re:Think different... by ReformedExCon · · Score: 5, Funny

    2) is obviously a fat little squirrel. I like to draw squirrels a little thinner: 1xf

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  6. Re:Think different... by Nermal6693 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know what's funnier: Your post, or that it's moderated Informative.

  7. Affected Titles by bitkari · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?