Re: IP SIG: THe Ghost in the CD

[Tim Au Yeung]

Title: IP SIG: THe Ghost in the CD

Hi Diane,   I should point out to everyone that Microsoft has now deemed it a threat (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10050095/) and is preparing to remove it from systems via their antispyware kit. I suspect that the real question here is has Sony violated the DMCA act for trying to break the IP of Microsoft vis a viz cloaking their software from the OS?   Tim       From: Diane M. Zorich [mailto:dzor...@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:54 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: IP SIG: THe Ghost in the CD   Recent news about how Sony's placement of DRM code on their music CDs is backfiring because the code, which gets copied onto your computer when you play the CD, opens up security holes that hackers have already taken advantage of.  (The old law of unintended consequences....)    Now I wonder if you are violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if you change the code to close the security hole?   Hmmm..   Diane   _________________________   See http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/business/14rights.html?pagewanted=2    The Ghost in the CD             E-Mail This              Printer-Friendly                 Single-Page             Reprints                 Save Article By TOM ZELLER Jr. Published: November 14, 2005  The latest album from Johnny and Donnie Van Zant, "Get Right With the Man," delivers "anthems with the sort of conviction that will inevitably inspire raised fists and chorus sing-a-longs," says  Amazon.com's official music reviewer. Fists are raised all right, but not in the way the Van Zants would have hoped. After years of battling users of free peer-to-peer file-sharing networks (and the software companies that support them), the recording industry now identifies "casual piracy" - the simple copying and sharing of CD's with friends - as the biggest threat to its bottom line.   And in one company's haste to limit the ripping and burning of CD's, a hornet's nest has been stirred. By the end of last week, that company,  Sony BMG, which had embedded aggressive copy-protection software on the Van Zant CD and at least 19 others, suspended the use of that software after security companies classified it as malicious. At least two Internet-borne worms were discovered attempting to take advantage of the program, which the CD's transferred to computers that played them. And the company was facing lawsuits accusing it of fraud and computer tampering in its efforts at digital rights management, or D.R.M.   -- --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: y...@ucalgary.ca To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com