On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:16:36PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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.
>
Hey, what a surprise. It looks like the DMCA really was meant to
protect us, after all.
-- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition.
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