sony, rootkits and digital rights management gone too far

plaster · Post by **plaster** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:26 pm

Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

washington post article

apparently sony cds contain hidden malware...

adam · Post by **adam** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:55 pm

Good thing Sony were always dicks to Apple users. They don't support 'em with their products and so we don't have to worry about it it (us apple users)

dsat · Post by **dsat** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:25 pm

i can't even remember when was the last time i bought a cd...

so they're making cds that fck with your system... i'm sure that's gonna have a postive effect on sales... keep it up

fromkaraoketostardom · Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:16 am

dsat wrote:i can't even remember when was the last time i bought a cd...

i can't even remember when was the last time i bought a SONY Cd !!!

Rich · Post by **Rich** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:23 pm

Seems they´ve backed up on this one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4430608.stm

This can only be a good thing, even though I don´t buy Sony cds. If one company does it then they´ll all do it. All a bit 1984!

Robot Criminal · Post by **Robot Criminal** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:48 pm

but this is totally f***ed up

no respect for the costumer/client whatsoever.
how can they even think of such things I don't get it.

edit: I'm reading the article and it gets more fucked up with every line omg

At that point I knew conclusively that the rootkit and its associated files were related to the First 4 Internet DRM software Sony ships on its CDs. Not happy having underhanded and sloppily written software on my system I looked for a way to uninstall it. However, I didn’t find any reference to it in the Control Panel’s Add or Remove Programs list, nor did I find any uninstall utility or directions on the CD or on First 4 Internet’s site. I checked the EULA and saw no mention of the fact that I was agreeing to have software put on my system that I couldn't uninstall. Now I was mad.

I deleted the driver files and their Registry keys, stopped the $sys$DRMServer service and deleted its image, and rebooted. As I was deleting the driver Registry keys under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services I noted that they were either configured as boot-start drivers or members of groups listed by name in the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot subkeys, which means that they load even in Safe Mode, making system recovery extremely difficult if any of them have a bug that prevents the system from booting.

When I logged in again I discovered that the CD drive was missing from Explorer. Deleting the drivers had disabled the CD. Now I was really mad.

F************ED UP!!!! :evil:

HAHAHa i'm reading the whole thing and it gets very amusing
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/1 ... ernet.html
I think people livin in usa and uk, owning sony cd-s may get pretty good money out of this one LOL

zentex · Post by **zentex** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:42 am

yeah, let's just all stick with the vinyl, let's see them try to put bugs on that...

salaisinko? · Post by **salaisinko?** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:56 am

there has been a recent news that they're going to quit that hidden malware cd produce and it better stay that way too. At least now nobody'll touch the DRM in cd's for a while