God, I love Sony

[thecreeper]

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.