http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2005/11/17/sony-music-wholesale-pirate/ A journal of geekery, music and joy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2005/11/17/sony-music-wholesale-pirate/comment-page-1/#comment-3645 Rain City Geek » Sony Pirating to Protect their IP? Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:46:23 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2710#comment-3645 [...] According to the Evil Genius Chronicles, when Sony decided to drop a rootkit onto your PC when you played one of their DRM’d CDs, they illegally used free open source code. So, to recap. We have Sony claiming that it needs to protect itself from theft. But to do this, they feel the need to help themselves to freely available OSS. Posted by Rod @ 7:41 am :: Ethics Comment RSS :: Trackback URI --> [...] [...] According to the Evil Genius Chronicles, when Sony decided to drop a rootkit onto your PC when you played one of their DRM’d CDs, they illegally used free open source code. So, to recap. We have Sony claiming that it needs to protect itself from theft. But to do this, they feel the need to help themselves to freely available OSS. Posted by Rod @ 7:41 am :: Ethics Comment RSS :: Trackback URI –> [...]

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