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Researcher: Sony BMG "rootkit" still widespread
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-16

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, including many military and government networks, appear to still contain PCs with the controversial copy-protection software installed by music discs sold by media giant Sony BMG, a security researcher told attendees at the ShmooCon hacking conference this weekend.

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Don't they sell MP3 players too? 2006-06-17
Anonymous
This goes back to when they first tried to stop people from ripping music to MP3s (the one you could defeat with a magic marker). Doesn't Sony sell MP3 players? How can we possibly put the music on the player if we can't rip them to go on the device?

I remember back when cassettes were used for...

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