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Rick Rubin Discloses Sony Rootkit Called Home
caffeinemessiah writes "Rick Rubin, the legendary music producer, recently signed on as co-head of Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony BMG. In a recent New York Times interview (on pg. 4 of the online version), he discloses, possibly accidentally: 'It was the highest debut of Neil [Diamond]'s career, off to a great start. But Columbia — it was some kind of corporate thing — had put spyware on the CD. That kept people from copying it, but it also somehow recorded information about whoever bought the record...' Seems like the rootkit might have been a little more than your vanilla invade-your-rights-DRM scheme."
The thing that scares me in this world is that something like this probably wasn't written just to shock people, it was most likely stroke material for poo fetishits. Things like this make me think that people like Osama are right. But then I consider that Osama's own society is full of sex freaks and I realize he doesn't have a leg to stand on, either.
And who the fuck has so little time on their hands that they hang around waiting for articles to post so they can drop a frist pr0st in that will be immediately downmodded?
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Jesus was a leprechaun - with a dick out to here!!
Well, aren't you just a festive little ball of hate. Have fun with your trolling.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Actually the irony here is that Neil Diamond got sued for singing about "E.T. phoning home" a la the song Heartlight in ~1982.
/moving along now