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November 7, 2005
Poetic Justice
Sony included a rootkit with its copy-protected CDs, with the intention of limiting purchasers' use of the CDs (particularly how many copies can be burned). But the rootkit is so badly written that simply renaming your ripping program makes it invisible to the Sony rootkit. So Sony's compensation for millions of dollars in probable lost sales from the bad publicity is to somewhat control the use made of CDs they produce by people who cannot use Google to find the way around their copy protections.
Sell Sony short: they are going to have a rough quarter.
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