Sony DRM fucks you up!!! Beware - GoFuckYourself.com

aico · 11-05-2005, 03:59 AM

http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-6376177-1.html

...On Monday, October 31, alert users discovered that Sony BMG is using copy-protected CDs to surreptitiously install its digital rights management technology onto PCs. You don't have to be ripping the CD, either--just playing it from your CD-ROM drive triggers the installation. The software installs itself as a root kit, which is a set of tools commonly used to make certain files and processes undetectable, and they're the favored tool of crackers who are, as Wikipedia puts it, attempting to "maintain access to a system for malicious purposes." In fact, root kits are often classified alongside Trojan horses. And Mark Russinovich, who created a root-kit detection utility and was one of the first to blog about the Sony intrusion, discovered another little gem when he tried to remove the DRM drivers. It broke his computer--disabling his CD drive...

s9ann0 · 11-05-2005, 11:39 AM

thats fucked up

boner 2.0 · 11-05-2005, 11:40 AM

Thank you Sony

Doctor Dre · 11-05-2005, 11:53 AM

1st : Already posted
2nd : I don't see why it says oct 31 ... this was well known fact before that

wedouglas · 11-05-2005, 12:11 PM

Sony already released the patch

SmokeyTheBear · 11-05-2005, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by wedouglas

Sony already released the patch

a patch ?? lol . If i fucked up your car , would you let me come by and try to fix it. heh

Trax · 11-05-2005, 12:56 PM

A thing I will consider when buying electronics again in the near future. fuck you sony

aico · 11-05-2005, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Doctor Dre

1st : Already posted
2nd : I don't see why it says oct 31 ... this was well known fact before that

1st - sorry, but some of us don't camp on GFY all day reading every post
2nd - Just cuz you know it, doesn't make it "well known"
3rd - If it was already posted, and already "well known", why would you read the post and then comment on it. Do you feel the need to be heard?

11-05-2005, 03:59 AM	#1
aico Moo Moo Cow Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Washington State Posts: 14,748	Sony DRM fucks you up!!! Beware http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-6376177-1.html ...On Monday, October 31, alert users discovered that Sony BMG is using copy-protected CDs to surreptitiously install its digital rights management technology onto PCs. You don't have to be ripping the CD, either--just playing it from your CD-ROM drive triggers the installation. The software installs itself as a root kit, which is a set of tools commonly used to make certain files and processes undetectable, and they're the favored tool of crackers who are, as Wikipedia puts it, attempting to "maintain access to a system for malicious purposes." In fact, root kits are often classified alongside Trojan horses. And Mark Russinovich, who created a root-kit detection utility and was one of the first to blog about the Sony intrusion, discovered another little gem when he tried to remove the DRM drivers. It broke his computer--disabling his CD drive...

11-05-2005, 11:40 AM	#3
boner 2.0 Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 10,970	Thank you Sony __________________

11-05-2005, 11:39 AM	#2
s9ann0 Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Boston Posts: 4,873	thats fucked up

11-05-2005, 12:11 PM	#5
wedouglas So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Dearborn, MI Posts: 5,921	Sony already released the patch

11-05-2005, 12:56 PM	#7
Trax [----------------------] Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 14,486	A thing I will consider when buying electronics again in the near future. fuck you sony