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Skriven 2005-11-22 18:52:12 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 8324 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Sony BMG's copy-protection problems grow
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>


"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
news:qk57o1d97lhvmm3pc4kn2m0ctck34okqa9@4ax.com...
> Still more...
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11357?ref=rss
>
> ===
> Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced plans on Wednesday to pull from
> store shelves nearly 2.6 million CDs that include a controversial
> copy-protection program, offer consumers an opportunity to return the
> discs, and create a more secure program to help remove the software from
> people's computers.
>
>

Unfortunately it appears that the CD purchasing public is apathetic to DRM
< stupid public >

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/22/analysis/

Sony unsinged by rootkit CD fiasco
Expect more exploits
For all the lawsuits, over-the fold-coverage in mainstream print and on
primetime TV, and howls of anguish from the blogosphere, Sony Music has sailed
through the rootkit CD fiasco largely unharmed.

The only figure that matters - the bottom line - appears to be unaffected by
the fiasco. CNet's John Borland reports, and as retailers confirmed to The
Register, that Sony hasn't lost sales from popular titles infected with the
notorious XCP copy-restriction technology.

The poorly written software leaves a PC wide open to hackers, and attempts to
remove it can disable the CD drive. Sony Music reluctantly announced a recall
and exchange program for XCP-infected CDs last week.

But the CD buying public doesn't seem to care. One large retail store, Amoeba
Records in tech savvy Berkeley hasn't seen a single infected CD returned to the
store. Chart rankings and Gracenote lookups don't reflect a fall off in sales
for the affected CDs.

Far from being a historic turning point in the public's perception of nefarious
DRM tactics, that many hoped, it's proof that the CD buying public is
impervious to technology warnings, or at least extremely slow to cotton on.

We may have feared as much. One in four PCs connected to the internet in the UK
is "owned", in other words, fatally compromised by malware. And yet good
technology advice isn't hard to find: news stand magazines and part-works offer
lucid explanations, most newspapers feature weekly PC advice columns, and much
more information is only two clicks away on the internet.


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