Comments on: Sony CDs Install Rootkit on Your Computer! BMG XCP2 DRM AFU! http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/sony-cds-install-rootkit-on-your-computer-bmg-drm-afu/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Chris http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/sony-cds-install-rootkit-on-your-computer-bmg-drm-afu/#comment-936653 Chris Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:29:35 +0000 /?p=1171#comment-936653 After trying to rip the SONY BMG title '13 Steps' by A Perfect Circle <i>(Tool for girls, if you ask me)</i> so he could listen to it on his SONY MP3 player - a CD that HE ACTUALLY OWNS by the way, he found that Windows XP could no longer detect his CD-ROM drive - innocently - he thought the CD Drive was kaput so bought a new one. This was also undetectable and only after an hour of two of me scouring the Internet for him could I find that by removing XCP2 would XP begin detecting the CD-ROM drives again. This is just another example of how over-zealous security methods by money-grabbing corporations punish only the law-abiding, silent majority, normal customer. Any badass cd-pirate would kick xcp2's ass anyday. However - my friend is <b>not</b> that type of person - so why does he get punished for someone else's wrongs? Sony are tramps. After trying to rip the SONY BMG title ‘13 Steps’ by A Perfect Circle (Tool for girls, if you ask me) so he could listen to it on his SONY MP3 player - a CD that HE ACTUALLY OWNS by the way, he found that Windows XP could no longer detect his CD-ROM drive - innocently - he thought the CD Drive was kaput so bought a new one. This was also undetectable and only after an hour of two of me scouring the Internet for him could I find that by removing XCP2 would XP begin detecting the CD-ROM drives again. This is just another example of how over-zealous security methods by money-grabbing corporations punish only the law-abiding, silent majority, normal customer. Any badass cd-pirate would kick xcp2’s ass anyday. However - my friend is not that type of person - so why does he get punished for someone else’s wrongs? Sony are tramps.

]]> By: Doug Lochery http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/sony-cds-install-rootkit-on-your-computer-bmg-drm-afu/#comment-2826 Doug Lochery Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:20:54 +0000 /?p=1171#comment-2826 I had a spat with BMG about an earlier version of their copyright control software on a CD as I use Sony's SonicStage software to change all my CD's into ATRAC3 files for use on my media PC and my NetMD. BMGs response to my complaint then was to offer a non-copyright version of the CD if I sent them my proof of purchase. By the time they responded, the MP3s were available online. It's MY PC, I paid for the CD, I paid for the software and I want to use it HOW I WANT! Sony - when are you going to realise that you're damaging your own reputation with these repeated anti-piracy faux-pas? I had a spat with BMG about an earlier version of their copyright control software on a CD as I use Sony’s SonicStage software to change all my CD’s into ATRAC3 files for use on my media PC and my NetMD. BMGs response to my complaint then was to offer a non-copyright version of the CD if I sent them my proof of purchase. By the time they responded, the MP3s were available online.

It’s MY PC, I paid for the CD, I paid for the software and I want to use it HOW I WANT! Sony - when are you going to realise that you’re damaging your own reputation with these repeated anti-piracy faux-pas?

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