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Scott Granneman, 2005-11-22

The big story the last few weeks has been the Sony BMG rootkit and in fact, it's the kind of story for which columnists drool: a big company does something unbelievably dumb that violates basic security principles. If you don't know what I'm talking about (and if you really don't, I'm amazed - you need to follow the news more!), you can read excellent coverage on SecurityFocus, plus a good write-up on Wired, or catch up with a timeline of events brought to you by Boing Boing (parts one, two and three).

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Re: Sony-baloney 2005-11-30
Anonymous
If they insall or copy the music to their computers, yes. They shouldn't really be doing so, even though if they are the soul user of the computer they are still under the "fair use" of the CD and the music it contains. It is all up to the Acceptable Use Policy for your organization to determine what the users can and cannot do, but if they just want to _listen_ to the CD, without copying or installing anything, I don't really see a problem with that... Until now... Thanks Sony.

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