[Clips] Sony to Help Remove its DRM Rootkit

[Dave Howe]

R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> <http://www.betanews.com/article/print/Sony_to_Help_Remove_its_DRM_Rootkit/1130965475>

Unfortunately, this is an exaggeration of what Sony have agreed to do - they
have issued an installable which removes the filename cloaking component while
leaving the rest (primarily, the cd rom driver chain "filters" in place. It is
still not possible to remove these other than manually (and yes, the system as a
whole still uses up cpu and memory for no benefit other than for sony (and even
then, its a trivial hack to prevent the DRM from installing in the first place -
just disable autorun, which anyone halfway paranoid does anyhow)
  Mind you, sony seem to have added another wrinkle to this story with their new
DRM - which is aimed, not at preventing p2p copies, but at isolating Sony CDs
from itunes....
  http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/10/drm_crippled_cd.html

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