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Sony halts rootkit CD production
After a week of increasingly angry responses from consumers, Sony BMG has finally decided to stop making CDs using its controversial DRM "rootkit." In a statement, the company admitted no wrongdoing, and said "as a precautionary ...
Sony settles in rootkit class action suit
Sony BMG has proposed
a settlement in the class action lawsuit concerning the XCP rootkit that many of its music CDs were installing on users' computers without their permission. If
passed, the settlement would have Sony recalling all XCP CDs and ...
Sony to sell DRM-free music online after all
Apparently Sony's plan for DRM-free music distribution isn't quite as dumb as we thought. Sure, the music label's announcement that it would sell DRM-free music was quickly followed by the news that you'd have to walk into a bricks and mortar retail ...
How to make a Sony-alike DRM CD
Jealous that Sony is getting all the attention? Want to act like a supervillain record company, too? Freedom to Tinker has put together a guide on how to burn an audio CD just like the big kids at XCP and Macrovision do, i.e. so you can play it but ...
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Sony BMG dropping DRM
DRM is dead, long live the MP3. OK, dead might be an overstatement, but Sony BMG is the latest major record label planning to offer music in the unrestricted MP3 format. For years, Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner have insisted on using digital ...
Lavasoft testing Sony rootkit remover
Not to be outdone by
Microsoft, Lavasoft, makers of the Ad-Aware malware removal program are a beta program called ARIES Rootkit Remover
designed to get rid of the XCP rootkit installed by
some of Sony's DRM-encumbered CDs. Members of Lavasoft's beta ...
Did the US government get Sony to back down?
Here's an interesting twist in the Sony BMG rootkit saga: according to the Washington Post,
officials at the US Department of Homeland Security made a not-so-veiled
threat to Sony about the security risks caused by the company's DRM.
An official, ...
List of Sony rootkit CDs now available
If you want to make sure that Sony BMG hasn't hacked its way into your PC's innards, check out this list of CDs known to contain the company's DRM "rootkit." The list includes quite a range of artists, from Ricky Martin to Neil Diamond, so ...
Sony may have the oddest plan ever for DRM-free music
You know how we told you the other day that Sony would become the last major label to offer DRM-free music? Yeah, apparently they're going kicking and screaming. While most record labels offering DRM-free downloads are letting users buy songs from ...
Sony DRM Roundup
It's been a busy couple of days in the never-ending soap opera that is the Sony BMG rootkit saga. Here are some of the latest developments:Microsoft says it's "concerned" about the issue, saying security is the company's "top ...
Sony BMG could launch subscription music service
In an interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Sony BMG CEO Rolf Schmid-Holtz explained that the music studio is considering launching an all-you-can-eat style subscription music service. There aren't a ton of details at this ...
Sony confirms closure of 'Connect' music store - paying customers get stung by DRM
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Sony's Connect music store has been around a fair while, in fact, a fair while longer than perhaps some of us expected. Sony -- a ...
Is Sony hacking your PC?
You probably already know that Sony BMG has started selling at least some CDs that include built-in copy-protection,
making it difficult to play the CDs on a computer using any media
player other than the one bundled on the CD, and limiting the ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
