Jerkwads at Sony put rootkits into their DRM!

CO · Post by CO » Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:55 am

Looks like there are a couple of class action lawsuits filed against sony about this shit.

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/

Of course, looking at the list I'd be safe because I'd never pay for any of this shit:

Nothing Is Sound: Switchfoot
Unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield
Ride: Shelly Fairchild
12 Songs: Neil Diamond
Touch: Amerie
Bloom Remix Album: Sarah McLachlan
Kasabian: Kasabian
The Essential Pete Seeger: Pete Seeger
Jeru: Gerry Mulligan
Times Like These: Buddy Jewell,
Bob Brookmeyer & Friends : Bob Brookmeyer
Healthy In Paranoid Times: Our Lady Peace
Cautivo : Chayanne
The Invisible Invasion : Coral, The Coral
Defined : Amici Forever
Suspicious Activity : The Bad Plus
Manhattan Symphonie : Dexter Gordon
Phantoms : Acceptance
On Ne Change Pas : Celine Dion
Get Right with the Man : Van Zant
To Love Again : Chris Botti
Life : Ricky Martin
The Essential Dion : Dion
Faso Latido : A Static Lullaby
Change It All : Goapele
Susie Suh : Susie Suh
My Very Special Guests : George Jones
Broken Valley : Life of Agony
Silver's Blue : Horace Silver
Z : My Morning Jacket
The 60s : The Dead 60s

Except George Jones, I already have a couple of his cd's. Anyone still paying for Ricky Martin, Celine Dion or Sarah McLachlan deserves to have their computer fucked up though.

Casual Observer · Post by **Casual Observer** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:38 am

The Register wrote:Sony-BMG's rootkit DRM technology masks files whose filenames start with "$sys$". A newly-discovered variant of of the Breplibot Trojan takes advantage of this to drop the file "$sys$drv.exe" in the Windows system directory.

Just think of all the spyware that will use this too. Sony's gonna get fucked up the ass for this one.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:04 pm

Exactally.

Spyware, hell, how about viruses? Now Klez is a legitimate threat again.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:53 pm

"Exactally".

Would you please look at what you've typed before you hit Su---

Wait.

bad post fairy · Post by **bad post fairy** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:51 pm

pinback wrote:"Exactally".

Would you please look at what you've typed before you hit Su---

Wait.

So sad, this is what the once <s>great</s> acceptable pinback has reduced himself to: picking on the blind guy's typing.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:13 pm

The even worse post faerie: that "typo" was deliberate. Fucktard.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:28 pm

I agree that Pinback was once great. Then he drugged himself up better than an acid-breathing fire mump and now we get spelling corrections, four word posts and an inability to describe hot sauces.

"I have altered the sauce. Pray I do not alter it any further."

I'm going to start doing these Magic: The Slobbering style. The quotes, I mean. Nobody cares who said what and I can't be bothered to Google for the exact phrase anyway.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:05 pm

This thread is gay.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:08 pm

Where's my $20?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:08 pm

I wouldn't say I was "great". I would say I was better than all of you, except for ICJ, and very (very) occasionally Knuckles.

But, as with all better-than-you things, it had to come to an end sometime.

(I'm still better than CO, though.)

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:21 pm

Alisakiss is CLEARLY showing her nipples in the drpepper video. CLEARLY. It's only for a little bit, but they are there.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:44 pm

Prove it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:54 pm

http://sonowthen.net/crap/drpepper.wmv

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:56 pm

I mean, vidcap.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:57 pm

Oh. I don't view pornography, so it's impossible for me to do that.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:07 am

Great thread here, guys. Just fantastic work.

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:57 pm

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industrie ... htm?csp=26

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:12 am

We did it! Thanks to our moderate bitching on this board, we managed to bring Sony to it's corporate knees and do our bidding!

Great job, everyone.

THE
NORMA RAE
AARDVARK

CO · Post by CO » Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:17 am

Well, that, and about 6 lawsuits.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:20 pm

They still refuse to admit they fucked up. Great job, Sony. i respect that you're standing up for your "homies" and all but, really, come on--you're just getting torpedoed on this here.