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Shades of the Sony/BMG rootkit scandal
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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rootkits
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
locked.

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