Sony to be in a world of trouble over XCP problems

[enderzero]

Freedom to Tinker has a good description of the huge blunder that will be blowing up in Sony's face real soon over their secret trojan. Yipes!

In the mean time don't rip any sony discs!!

[enderzero]

Man those guys are bastards. Muzzy's research.

/. has a good explanation of some technical aspects of XCP and rootkits in general and a bit about the latest controversy. They also have a working list of all the Sony CDs that will have installed the rootkit if you have simply listened to them... not just ripped.

[enderzero]

Sony is now being sued by both Texas and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

If all this trouble wasn't bad enough, Freedom to Tinker now reports that XCP may infringe on open source code from many other programmers. Damn idiots at Sony.

[enderzero]

Although it seems I am the only one who cares about this stuff, I am fascinated by the continuing revelations about what exactly was goign on with SonyBMG and the First4Internet XCP debacle.

It turns out XCP includes code to convert not from but to Apple's FairPlay DRM. A big question mark on why, but also a big uh-oh for another possible copyright infraction.

Story at ars and (as always) a more detailed version with interesting speculation as to why at Freedom to Tinker.

[R3C]

I've been following it, but there's not much to discuss. Sony=TehSuck, don't rip or play discs from them, and woohoo it's funny to watch them get into trouble. I don't think anything that I listen to is on the Sony label anyway.