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| Thread ID: 63511 | 2005-11-12 03:30:00 | MAC's and SONY DRM too! | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
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| 403617 | 2005-11-12 03:30:00 | Oh, and you Mac users chortling over on the sidelines -- apparently Sony is platform agnostic (godless) when it comes to annoying its customers . Writing in MacInTouch, Darren Dittrich says, "I recently purchased Imogen Heap's new CD (Speak for Yourself), an RCA Victor release, but with distribution credited to Sony/BMG . Reading recent reports of a Sony rootkit, I decided to poke around . In addition to the standard volume for AIFF files, there's a smaller extra partition for 'enhanced' content . I was surprised to find a 'Start . app' Mac application in addition to the expected Windows-related files . Running this app brings up a long legal agreement, clicking Continue prompts you for your username/password (uh-oh!), and then promptly exits . Digging around a bit, I find that Start . app actually installs 2 files: PhoenixNub1 . kext and PhoenixNub12 . kext . Personally, I'm not a big fan of anyone installing kernel extensions on my Mac . In Sony's defense, upon closer reading of the EULA, they essentially tell you that they will be installing software . Also, this is apparently not the same technology used in the recent Windows rootkits (made by XCP), but rather a DRM codebase developed by SunnComm, who promotes their Mac-aware DRM technology on their site . " |
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| 403618 | 2005-11-12 09:28:00 | Ah, so they have time to write DRM software for Mac OS X :rolleyes:. I read somewhere that it is like a regular software installer so you have to enter your admin username and password before it actually does anything but still, after hearing about the Windows version I won't be buying any CDs with this rubbish on it. :yuck: | maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 403619 | 2005-11-12 10:01:00 | Well if the CD has DRM in it, it can't legally be called a compact disc, if it has anything in it besides the music it is classed as a cdrom, which I refuse to buy, and have taken back them back to music stores in the past for a refund. | plod (107) | ||
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