Those against Digital Rights Management (DRM) may win the battle because one of their opponents (Sony) shot themselves in the foot by embedding a hacker rootkit in their CDs. We’ll see how this shakes out, but here’s an interesting update:
Anti-DRM tide rises inside Sony; Scotch tape defeats rootkit by ZDNet’s David Berlind — Just a few quick hits on the still evolving Sony rootkit story. Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow claims to have received an e-mail from a highly placed source within Sony BMG indicating that record label heads may be rethinking DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) as a part of their business. According to Doctorow’s blog entry, several […] [more]
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