More on Sony's DRM Rootkit
Here’s the story, edited to add lots of news.
There will be lawsuits. (Here’s the first.) Police are getting involved. There’s a Trojan that uses Sony’s rootkit to hide. And today Sony temporarily halted production of CDs protected with this technology.
Sony really overreached this time. I hope they get slapped down hard for it.
EDITED TO ADD (13 Nov): More information on uninstalling the rootkit. And Microsoft will update its security tools to detect and remove the rootkit. That makes a lot of sense. If Windows crashes because of this—and others of this ilk—Microsoft will be blamed.
Erik Carlseen • November 11, 2005 12:41 PM
“Sony really overreached this time. I hope they get slapped down for it.”
I just hope that them getting slapped down doesn’t result in new legistlation allowing this sort of nonsense…
It might be good for the EFF, etc., to launch a pre-emptive strike against Sony et al with the Government – using this as an example of the abusive behavior that goes hand-in-hand with DRM. Of course, that would involve a bit of hyperbole (this was more incompetance than malice), but that’s the way business is done in Washington.