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DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit?

Posted by Zonk on from the when-will-it-end dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With some help from Sabre Security, Sebastian Porst and Matti Nikki have identified some stolen GPL'd code in Sony's rootkit. Ironically the code in question seems to be VLC's demux/mp4/drms.c -- the de-DRMS code which circumvents Apple's DRM, written by 'DVD' Jon Lech Johansen and Sam Hocevar."

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  1. PS3 vs. XBOX360 by Work+Account · · Score: 1, Troll

    WOW, I can't believe how much Sony has screwed themselves here with this rootkit.

    Just out of curiousity, please reply to this comment stating which game console you are going to buy and if this rootkit has changed your decision.

    I initially was going to wait for PS3 but now I am boycotting Sony and will be getting a 360 in a week or so.

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    1. Re:PS3 vs. XBOX360 by 10Ghz · · Score: 0, Troll

      You didn't really address my point at all. You said that punishing SCEA does not make sense, because Sony Music is a different division. I beg to differ, they are both part of the same corporation.

      You might care about PS3's DRM. Apperently Sony is trying to figure out a way to prevent used games from being played on it. And they are apparently working on preventing you from playing your games on any other system than your own (so you can't take your game to a friends place and play there). SCEA is just as scummy, greedy and paranoid as Sony Music is.

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  2. Re:Are there no depths... by tehwebguy · · Score: 0, Troll

    YEAH! that's why we need software patents!

    wait.. what

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  3. A poem. by Hitto · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shoddy hardware, customer infamy,
    DRM rootkit, music very crappy,
    Every day that passes only reminds me :
    BOYCOTT THE FUCK OUTTA SONY!

  4. Re:Nope by monkeydo · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only reason it matters at all is the fact that copyright hawks keep using the term "theft" for PR purposes.

    So you're saying that Zonk and the submitter are "copyright hawks"? Too many people are hawks when it is their property being stolen, and doves when it is someone else's.

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