RIAA backs SONY DRM spyware

[method77]

p2p news / p2pnet: RIAA president Cary Sherman doesn't see a problem with Sony BMG's rootkit DRM spyware.

Moreover, speaking on behalf of Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI Group, the other three members of Organized Music, he suggests Sony BMG, not its customers, is the real victim.

Sony BMG commissioned Britain's First4Internet to build a rootkit Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) package which it then added to 52 music CDs.

Rootkits are specifically designed to be used by hackers and others to hide content from anti-spyware or anti-virus applications.

The First4Internet code knowingly used by Sony BMG amounted to a computer virus. But Sony didn't trouble to tell buyers this DRM spyware would be secretly planted in their computers when the disc was loaded.

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[Guest .::BeatFactory::.]

Shows how much he knows...

Texas is suing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_on_...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Potato]

I read somewhere that California was gonna sue too.

Cary Sherman's a flippin' idiot.

[Shawn]

The RIAA has nothing to lose by backing Sony.

They're already the devil.

[Guest .::BeatFactory::.]

I read somewhere that California was gonna sue too.

Cary Sherman's a flippin' idiot.

It's the EFF:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialne...ch_down&chan=tc

[rainbowdemon]

RIAA president Cary Sherman doesn't see a problem with Sony BMG's rootkit DRM spyware.

Imagine that!!

:reallymad:

[CTC Command]

RIAA president Cary Sherman doesn't see a problem with Sony BMG's rootkit DRM spyware.

Imagine that!!

:reallymad:

lets see him load that crap onto HIS computer...

I think a major boycott of Sony is in order. They suck.

You all already know what I think of the RIAA! :P

NPR mentioned tonite the fact that the Texas spyware law set the fine $100,000 in damages for each violation--and there was some ridiculous number of CD's shipped there, like in the hundreds of thousands...I will laugh my ass off if Texas bankrupts Sony...

Edited November 22, 2005 by CTC Command

[MxRob]

I read somewhere that California was gonna sue too.

Wow somebody is actually going to do something constructive in this state. Amazing

[Wolfie]

It was pretty obvious where the RIAA would stand on this. They are digging themselves deeper as usual.

[Redneck4sure]

Even my son that puts up with most crap said a few days ago he won't buy another Sony product of any sort and has cancelled his subscription to some online game that Sony has. As for me, I haven't bought anything from Sony for years so they won't be able to tell I'm pissed.