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[labellementeuse]

Some news about something Sony CDs are apparently doing: when you play a Sony CD on your computer it apparently installs software onto your computer to stop you doing all kinds of stuff with it, in a way that also makes your computer more vulnerable.

Um, yeah. Don't buy Sony. :P

Comments

[gianp.livejournal.com]

A 99c whiteboard marker defeats their copy protection though :-p

[kuril.livejournal.com]

and most of the time, if you're a GNU/Linux user, copyprotection does zilch. And the sort of software Sony uses only affects Windows users.

If copyprotection does work on a GNU/Linux system, then your CD-ROM drive needs to find itself in the compactor.

I've never had a problem with such discs :-)

So there you go, use an alternative to Windows, or suffer DRM.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Crappy. I hope that doesn't happen when you're putting them on itunes.....