{"id":478,"date":"2005-11-02T01:41:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/478"},"modified":"2005-11-02T01:41:15","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T01:41:15","slug":"sony-bmg-installing-rootkits-when-you-play-a-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/478","title":{"rendered":"Sony BMG installing rootkits when you play a CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what marketing genius over at Sony BMG decided that rootkitting the PC of anyone who plays their CDs<\/a> is a good way to attract customers?<\/p>\n

Every time I think the recording industry is going to get a clue, they just go further off the deep end. Next thing you know they’ll be secretly bugging our bathrooms to keep us from illegally singing “their” songs in the shower…<\/p>\n

Update 11\/2\/05:<\/b> Declan McCullagh over at Politech<\/a> asks an interesting question: Does this rootkit constitute a “technological measure that effectively controls access to a [copyrighted] work?” If so, would removing the rootkit from your own system constitute a violation of the DMCA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So what marketing genius over at Sony BMG decided that rootkitting the PC of anyone who plays their CDs<\/a> is a good way to attract customers?<\/p>\n

Every time I think the recording industry is going to get a clue, they just go further off the deep end. Next thing you know they’ll be secretly bugging our bathrooms to keep us from illegally singing “their” songs in the shower…<\/p>\n

Update 11\/2\/05:<\/b> Declan McCullagh over at Politech<\/a> asks an interesting question: Does this rootkit constitute a “technological measure that effectively controls access to a [copyrighted] work?” If so, would removing the rootkit from your own system constitute a violation of the DMCA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}