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Thursday, November 03, 2005

Sony Installs Virus Software to Stop Piracy

This is a great story of how record companies are going too far. Sony has released several CD's that install antipiracy software when you try to play the CD in a computer. The best part is once the software is installed it burries itself into the computer like a virus. It can not be deleted, and if you have the computer skills to track it down and forcibly remove it, it renders your CD drive inoperable. They even have the software load when a computer is bootred into safe mode. It gets even better kiddies, the software then acts as a back door for virus's by letting them sneak in the same way it has and worm their way in and become immune to virus protection by hiding as the Sony file. The best part is that if you are using a beta version of Windowns Vista it "breaks the operating system spectacularly." Remember when you buy music from Sony the hackers have already won.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Surely, isn't it just plain unethical to offer software that can be installed, then cannot be uninstalled? Or am I still living in the 20th Century? Or Kansas.

7:35 PM, November 03, 2005

 

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