[IP] Music CD installs copy-protection software
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Date: June 24, 2004 12:38:53 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Music CD installs copy-protection software
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From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/366191
From: Dragos Ruiu
Organization: All Terrain Ninjas
Subject: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:10:23 -0700
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
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/366191
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