God, I love Sony

thecreeper · 11-17-2005, 06:36 PM

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-11/15.shtml#sony

In case you haven't heard about it...Recent Sony albums contained "the stealth XCP technology that installed nasty little buggers called "rootkits" on Windows computers (Macs are safe), slowing down operating systems, leaving hard drives open to virus infection, and, perhaps worst of all, transmitting information about the user back to Sony HQ. As if that wasn't bad enough, the anti-piracy software prevents the disc's tunes from being transferred to iPods (once again, Macs are safe). So basically, you're better off downloading the stuff from Soulseek."

Though they have a patch for removing the rootkit, their copy protection software is still causing all sorts of problems with frequent system crashes and occasionally causing CD drives to no longer recognize CD's. In addition, they have no intention of taking the current rootkit CD's off the market or recalling them. According to Pitchfork, the blacklisted CD's are as follows:

Trey Anastasio - Shine
Celine Dion - On ne Change Pas
Neil Diamond - 12 Songs
Our Lady Peace - Healthy in Paranoid Times
Chris Botti - To Love Again
Van Zant - Get Right With the Man
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
Acceptance - Phantoms
Susie Suh - Susie Suh
Amerie - Touch
Life of Agony - Broken Valley
Horace Silver Quintet - Silver's Blue
Gerry Mulligan - Jeru
Dexter Gordon - Manhattan Symphonie
The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity
The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s
Dion - The Essential Dion
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Ricky Martin - Life
My Morning Jacket - Z *
Santana - All That I Am *
Sarah McLachlan - Bloom Remix Album *

* features copy-protection technology that is not XCP, but still suspect

If there was ever another reason that pirates needed to not buy CD's this is certainly a very big one.

raublekick · 11-17-2005, 07:21 PM

Haha Pitchfork thinks they're underground... Soulseek...

Jesse · 11-18-2005, 07:58 AM

One of my roommates got this nasty bit of software on his harddrive. So far he hasn't found any way to get rid of it.

sharkz · 11-18-2005, 09:50 PM

actually, it can affect macs as well, although it's more preventable (you have to enter your password before it can install anything)

source: http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=0...03&mode=thread

thecreeper · 11-21-2005, 10:48 PM

Who didn't see this coming?

raublekick · 11-22-2005, 08:23 AM

The RIAA president also said Sony did nothing wrong.

wildbilld · 12-14-2005, 10:30 AM

lol because the RIAA pressident only wants music to be sold on CDs so his stock price will go up half a point. All those greedy ........ don't want people putting music on the computer so it will stay safe. lol DOWN WITH SONY!

11-17-2005, 06:36 PM	#1
thecreeper Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancaster, PA Posts: 2,330	God, I love Sony http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-11/15.shtml#sony In case you haven't heard about it...Recent Sony albums contained "the stealth XCP technology that installed nasty little buggers called "rootkits" on Windows computers (Macs are safe), slowing down operating systems, leaving hard drives open to virus infection, and, perhaps worst of all, transmitting information about the user back to Sony HQ. As if that wasn't bad enough, the anti-piracy software prevents the disc's tunes from being transferred to iPods (once again, Macs are safe). So basically, you're better off downloading the stuff from Soulseek." Though they have a patch for removing the rootkit, their copy protection software is still causing all sorts of problems with frequent system crashes and occasionally causing CD drives to no longer recognize CD's. In addition, they have no intention of taking the current rootkit CD's off the market or recalling them. According to Pitchfork, the blacklisted CD's are as follows: Trey Anastasio - Shine Celine Dion - On ne Change Pas Neil Diamond - 12 Songs Our Lady Peace - Healthy in Paranoid Times Chris Botti - To Love Again Van Zant - Get Right With the Man Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound The Coral - The Invisible Invasion Acceptance - Phantoms Susie Suh - Susie Suh Amerie - Touch Life of Agony - Broken Valley Horace Silver Quintet - Silver's Blue Gerry Mulligan - Jeru Dexter Gordon - Manhattan Symphonie The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s Dion - The Essential Dion Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten Ricky Martin - Life My Morning Jacket - Z * Santana - All That I Am * Sarah McLachlan - Bloom Remix Album * * features copy-protection technology that is not XCP, but still suspect If there was ever another reason that pirates needed to not buy CD's this is certainly a very big one.

11-17-2005, 07:21 PM	#2
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	Haha Pitchfork thinks they're underground... Soulseek... __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

11-21-2005, 10:48 PM	#5
thecreeper Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancaster, PA Posts: 2,330	Who didn't see this coming? __________________ good-evil.net - ahh, wade boggs...goes down smooth.

11-22-2005, 08:23 AM	#6
raublekick Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lancastuh, PA Posts: 1,678	The RIAA president also said Sony did nothing wrong. __________________ http://www.good-evil.net slap that bitch, sell her coke

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wildbilld Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 25	lol because the RIAA pressident only wants music to be sold on CDs so his stock price will go up half a point. All those greedy ........ don't want people putting music on the computer so it will stay safe. lol DOWN WITH SONY!