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Re: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil



That could be why it sounds like crap when my X-Box trys to play it... the audio cuts in an out REAL bad...

I assume you would want to take a peak at beastie.exe if you really wanted to figure out what they are doing.
-KF


Dragos Ruiu wrote:

Well I truly regret actually purchasing a copy of the new Beastie Boys album
to support them.

It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system,
that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems.
I'm not sure exactly what it does yet, but I am sure regreting actually
purchasing said media now... they don't deserve my money if they choose
to pull stupid stunts like this. Installing software without your permission
sounds like viral malware behaviour to me. I certainly hope the AV companies
put signatures into their products for this crap.

They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see no such thing for MacOS. If anyone has disassembled the aforementioned malware already and can save us some time with instructions on how to remove it... thanks in advance.

caveat emptor,
--dr