PCWorld.com – Sony Uncloaks Hidden DRM Code

I thought I’d post a link to an article about Sony’s music recent practice of installing “copy protection” software that has the potential of making your computer instable and opening up your system to hackers.

This is a pretty big deal and has caused me to decide not to buy a CD by my favorite band Switchfoot (take time to look at some of the comments about the CD. The music/lyrics are supposed to be awesome, but many mention the code that is dropped on your system.)

The other issue is that because of the software, the CD may or may NOT play on your regular CD player. At this time I’m not sure I want to drop $16 to find out I have limited access to the music. I’m pretty bummed about this….

If you have played a Sony Music CD on your computer, you can go to this website and grab a free copy of Rootkit Revealer which will let you know if you have this, or other, rootkit type of software installed on your system.

It seems like it is very hard to remove this software, but Sony has a here allowing you to download software that is suppose to remove the software.

For more information, check these sites:

A working list of CDs
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Happy listening……