Re: [flalug] Sony, rootkit and DRM

From: Steve Litt (slitt@troubleshooters.com)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2005 - 19:16:36 EST


On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:45 pm, William Coulter wrote:
> If you buy music cds from sony, which is about everybody, read this
> article. It will blow your mind.
>
> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.h
>tml
>
> William
>
> ps. I wonder if linux is immune to the problem.

This is pure assumption, but I would guess that on Linux it would not play at
all because there is not a player that can read it. It's probably scrambled
so xmms type players see it as garbage, and although the scrambling's
probably trivial, unscrambling would be a DMCA violation.

SteveT



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