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Authored by: Zartan on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 01:30 PM EDT |
So, they're at it again, eh? Lest anyone forget that travesty, Wikipedia has a
pretty good article on it, including the gem I found most memorable at the
time:
... Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's Global Digital Business
President, told reporter Neda Ulaby, "Most people, I think, don't even know what
a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
S
ony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal
And, please recall that
disassembling the rootkit revealed code remarkably like that of
LAME, mpglib, FAAC, id3lib, mpg123, and
the VLC media player in the CD detection and anti-copy code. (See the Wikipedia
article for links to Sony/BMG's suspected GPL violations for the various
projects.)
That really frosted my shorts. The whole double standard of the
{RI,MP}AA and fellow travellers, where they don't have to obey the enhanced
copyright laws they've foisted onto the public continues to aggravate me.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 27 2013 @ 03:18 PM EDT |
Conspiration to gain access to computers without permission? They
ought to write the next version of that nonsense from a jail cell. That is,
if we just enforced the law against them the way it gets enforced against
citizens.
OBTW - this sure would result in many Capitol Hill computers being
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