On Tuesday 01 November 2005 22:16, Kevin Donnelly wrote: > This is quite an interesting report (though he makes a bit of a meal of it) > detailing how a rootkit gets installed on Microsoft Windows when you use > the media-player on a Soney DRMed CD. An excellent example of where large > content companies intend to go with DRM, and the fact that it's probably > illegal in at least 3 jurisdictions doesn't seem to faze them: > http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.h >tml
This could do with being written-up in a non-technical way i.e. so it'd be meaningful to people like MPs, describing (1) what this system does, (2) why it is bad, and (3) which laws (if any) it breaks. -- Philip Hunt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
