Pissed off about Sony music CD’s installing a rootkit on your computer when you put it in the drive?
Just use their own damn technology against them.

Posted by Matti Nikki:
If you want a more concrete proof, try to rename your favourite ripping software as $sys$whatever.exe and then run it again. You’ll notice that the DRM system can no longer detect it, and thus you’ll get good copy of the track you try to rip instead of one filled with noise.

Thats just hilarious. I think everyone should simply not worry about removing the rootkit, as this is too difficult, and then just do at Matti says, and use the rootkit to make your favorite ripping tool immune to the DRM. On second thought, is their software breaking the DMCA? It provides a method to bypass copyright protection that they install? Hmm…

Now, thats classic, and shows how extremely short sighted content providers like Sony are. Lets dump all this money into copy protection so that people have a slightly harder time ripping the extremely crappy music we’ve been providing. Getting better artists and pushing them to provide entertainment worth paying for, well, that’s just crazy talk!

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