More in the ongoing saga of the Sony DRM. The history can be traced
through the URLs below.
I posted this primarily for the interesting snippet about Sony Being
sued in Italy.
Gian, weren't you a founder of ALCEI? Can you comment on this?
Udhay
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/07/1221209
Posted by <http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=322>Hemos on
Monday November 07, @09:10AM
from the the-on-going-saga dept.
strider44 writes "Mark from Sysinternals has digged a little deeper
into the Sony DRM and discovered it
<http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloaking.html>Phones
Home with an ID for the CD being listened to. XCP Support claims that
"The player has a standard rotating banner that connects the user to
additional content (e.g. provides a link to the artist web site). The
player simply looks online to see if another banner is available for
rotation. The communication is one-way in that a banner is simply
retrieved from the server if available. No information is ever fed
back or collected about the consumer or their activities." Also on
this topic,
<http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloaking.html#113118588334788459>Matt
Nikki in the comments section discovered that the DRM can be bypassed
simply by renaming your favourite ripping program with "$sys$" at the
start of the filename and ripping the CD using this file, which is
now undetectable even by the Sony DRM. You can use the Sony rootkit
itself to bypass their own DRM!" Update: 11/07 14:21 GMT by
<http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=322>H : Attentive reader
Matteo G.P. Flora also notes that
<http://www.lastknight.com/2005/11/07/sony-bgm-denunciata-in-un-esposto/>an
Italian lawyer has filed suit against Sony on behalf of the Italian
equivalent of the EFF. Translation availabe through the
<http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lastknight.com%2F2005%2F11%2F07%2Fsony-bgm-denunciata-in-un-esposto%2F&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=it&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools>hive
mind. Update: 11/07 15:18 GMT by
<http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=322>H : It does appear that
in fact Sony does see through the $sys$ - see Muzzy's
<http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=13969137&sid=167537&tid=233>comment
for more details.
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